ISSUE #4 > > 325 ORGANISE . REPLICATE . RESIST

CONTENTS: (4) International Resistance News (10) Why Anti-Prison? (11) Interview with Rebel Jill, anarchist in Japan (18) Report from Nagai Park evicton, Osaka, Japan (20)Letter to the comrades of the F.A.I, from Gabriel Pombo da Silva (21)Letter from Giannis Dimitrakis, in Koridallos prison, Greece (23) From Dendermonde to Teixeiro” by Gabriel Pombo da Silva (24) Prison Society, Reformism and Insurrection (26) Letter from Silvia Guerin, of ‘Il Silvestre’, Italy (27) Discussing the Prison Struggle (29) Interview with Patricio Pallarès Bayona (31) Which Memory? (32) Repression & Reports

(39) Robert Anton Wilson is Dead Printed 4/2007 by the (39) Distro Anti-Copyright Network

“When prisoners empower themselves through collective organisation and solidarity, they become the one force capable of truly frightening those who administer and enforce the prison system. That spirit of resistance is something that should inspire all of us.” John Bowden, long-term prisoner in UK [email protected] #4/ 325collective.com [email protected]

This magazine is an infrequent DIY printed simplest method project of incendiary texts & images, available - direct involving the collaboration of a small communication network of anarchists and anti-capitalists between equals. spread across Europe and the World. Most of the information about current legal situations of prisoners and anti-political The secret network struggles changes frequently, check out of prisons around our web pages for more information and the world ran by the links. Consider becoming a contributor / CIA which enabled to distributor. them to ‘disappear’ anyone into a hidden Editorial, April 2007 world of torture and murder has been Since the last issue the world has seen exposed. Every major major ongoing insurrectionary incidents European nation has in China, Mexico and Denmark, and these been revealed to have assisted, or capitalist reform with blockades, riots are developing and splintering, turned a blind eye to routine and barricades, in Oaxaca, Mexico, reinforcing the broad-based global anti- kidnapping and secret rendition of the battle for autonomy has been capitalist networks that have reflected people suspected of terrorism. brought to its current intense their expansion. More and more people These people were held in terrible situation of State repression. In the are resisting capitalism and the global places which are blanked out of police patrolled yuppie-infested coffee neo-liberal free market, organising maps, where agents of the United bar city of Brighton, UK, squatters themselves horizontally without fixed States abuse, torture and murder survive prolonged periods of repeat organisation and hierarchy. people. Poland is home to a secret evictions and police harass local CIA base where prisoners were people who blockade and agitate Social insurgence is growing interrogated in such a way, despite against EDO-MBM, an arms company internationally, the situation exacerbated the official denials and watered building weapons for the Israeli by resource wars, environmental down reports. British Prime Defence Forces and the US Army. meltdown and political repression. Minister Tony Blair personally In Lecce, Italy, anarchists struggle Decentralised direct action against attempted to obstruct the official against terrorism charges intended government and finance is open to all, EC investigation into possible to stop their agitation with those and people are getting organised to fight ’human rights’ abuses, as did Javier people ‘without papers’, and across for a better world, against all the odds. Solana, the EU High Representative the entire Italian peninsula the for Common Foreign and Security anarchists fight to keep their meeting This battle cannot be fought by reforming Policy. Evidently, the EU is a project places open. Not just in Italy, but from the system, it must be totally destroyed, of military and industrial power, an the eviction and demolition of the as the rich and powerful will not allow advancing prison state of 'Ungdomshuset' occupied centre in themselves to be brought down technological control, but it seems Copenhagen, (which has been a base peacefully. Everywhere that there is all State power is founded on for anti-market, anti-state activity for finance and hierarchy, there is an anti- violence and imprisonment. decades), to the daily raids and political response against exploitation! crackdowns against the okupa/ We have to overthrow the governments The collapse of ‘Communism’ has squatter movement in Barcelona - and business men who want to wipe out meant Capitalism has almost Power and Capital is fighting hard to our rebel hearts forever, we want to enclosed the globe, but still holes in suppress of every flashpoint of directly manage our own lives with the the network of control exist, as do autonomy and resistance. areas of self-organisation. The current growing ascendancy of Free space is a point of departure for China as a world superpower, (as meeting friends interested in a the USA outstretches itself on common project of conflict against dangerous terms against multiple the system and its logic. players,) is a sign of the bankrupt ideological outcome of Leftism and Affinity, free exchange and voluntary State Socialism in general. The co-operation are a threat to capitalist global autonomous anti-state anti- exploitation. They are the basis of the capitalist movements are the only world that remains in our aspirations, significant opposition to State, transmits itself in our actions and financial and religious terror. In explodes in the fulfilment of our China the base population is desires. furiously struggling against mp Anarchy is Inevitable.

. a data network for direct action . . a media framework for social war . . the refusal of fixed territory . This is a list of incidents, neglected news March 14, Oxfordshire, UK - A Riot broke March 10, Athens, Greece - A riot police squad that rarely makes the headlines. As an out at the notorious Campsfield Detention in Messologiou str. was attacked in the evening. overview of social conflict, class struggle, Centre (immigration prison), after racist They were beaten with metal sticks and they had self-organisation, etc. it could never be staff tried to drag an Algerian detainee their shields and helmets taken. Two cops were anything but a partial listing, but it is from his room at 6.30am, to deport him, injured. merely a collection of moments defined despite his legal appeals not being by their participants. finished. Other detainees attempted to March 1-3, Copenhagen, Denmark - Extensive prevent this, but 7 immigration staff were riots started after the 'Youth House' March 18, London, UK - A Labour Party office injured and 35 police officers and a ('Ungdomshuset'), occupied for 2 decades, was was vandalised and spraypainted with the special unit of riot squad prison officers evicted by anti-terror units and masses of riot message "Your War, Your Terror", on the eve of entered the prison and put down the police. The city was enveloped in the biggest the fourth anniversary of the war on Iraq. rebellion. The brave detainees fought hard social disturbance since the Second World War. to wreck the prison and rebel, the fight Small groups of people avoided the police and lit March 15, Montreal, Canada - 400 people must continue and all of us on the outside fires across the area. Burning barricades and fire stormed through several neighbourhoods, must stop these places running forever. reigned in the streets; molotovs, cobblestones breaking windows of corporate stores and Campsfield Detention Centre is owned by and fireworks were used against the police. damaging vehicles. A few fires were started and a private US company - GEO UK Ltd, but Activists sabotaged the citys' electricity supply traffic repeatedly blocked. The crowd paused in ultimately by the racist Labour government, and burnt so many police vans the government rememberance at Kent Park, where the police had who use private companies to try and had to borrow vehicles and personel from the murdered a local man, Mohamed-Anas Bennis, absolve themselves from the responsibility Swedish state. 600+ people were arrested, and 25. 15 people were arrested. This was done the of repressing immigrants and for making solidarity actions swept Europe. The state day after the International Day against Police profits out of it. initiated raids against known political activists Brutality. and specifically against prisoner support March 13, Hereford, UK - 14 Land Rover organisations helping those arrested. All March 15, Drunen, Holland - Earth First! activists 4x4s were trashed by the ELF, here is the members of Copenhagens Anarchist Black sabotaged the gates of Alcoa's headquarters, and claim : "Fourteen 4x4s were covered in Cross (ABC) group were detained. Despite this, also Alcoa's largest dutch factory in Kerkrade was paint-stripper in a Land Rover Dealership international anti-state, anti-capitalist feelings run also shut down. The activists did this against the near Hereford in an action against climate high and the battle is not over. If there is not an planned construction of new aluminum smelters in change. Slogans were also sprayed while 'Ungdomshuset' in Copenhagen, there will be a Iceland. Alcoa also plans to build new smelters in the vehicles were left to ruin. This action fight for one! Trinidad and in the Amazon. There is fierce local was taken to warn any dealership and international opposition to these plans. specialising in these cars, that they are a February 27-28, County Durham, UK - Two Effects on nature and climate are devastating. target. Driving one of these vehicles is the nights of rioting at Deerbolt Young Offenders' Various planned smelters would be powered by equivalent to leaving the TV on for 32 Institution. Two prison wings were destroyed and constructing new megadams that would flood years, cars like this must be stopped in four prison guards were hurt. One of them was large areas of unique wilderness. With this action, their tracks. Climate change is the most left with a fractured skull. 40 youths were the activists declared their solidarity with the massive globally destructive issue that is involved in the disturbance. On the third night, 'Saving Iceland' campaign. 'Saving Iceland' called facing us today. We can not wait for six inmates smashed up their cells and were out for an international week of action against anyone else to take action but ourselves. relocated. heavy industry. This action was done in response The new dawn is coming for direct action to that call. in defence of the Earth. There will be no February 16, Reading, UK - Activists involved in more tolerance. Earth Liberation Front." struggles against detention centres entered the offices of ‘Global Expertise in Outsourcing’ (The March 12, Hunan city, GEO Group, formally known as the firm China - Around 20,000 ‘Wackenhuts’), and caused a disturbance. GEO farmers and laid-off Group was last year given the contract to run workers have rioted and Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre in clashed with 1,000 police Kidlington, UK. armed with guns and electric cattle prods. This is February 14, Bath, UK - The offices of ‘Land the latest in a long series of and Marine’ in Bath were targeted with spray mass incidents that are painted messages and super glued locks as part erupting across the of ongoing resistance to their South Wales gas country. The methods pipeline scheme. The company is responsible for include laying siege and building the massively destructive and danger- attacking party and ous 150-mile long LNG pipeline, which is set to government offices, trash land and communities across South Wales, blockading public roads, as well as posing a huge threat to safety. stopping trains and other disturbances.

4 February 7, London, UK - In a football game children invaded a between the Greek national team and the South five-star hotel food Korean national team, at Fulham football club, 4 tent and feasted on people holding two large banners (2 people per meals meant for sale banner) invaded the pitch. One banner said “70 at the World Social days of hunger strike” and the other one added “we Forum. The children, don’t forget, we don’t forgive”. This was done in who had been solidarity with anarchists, Tarasios Zadorozni and begging for food, Gerasimos Kyriakopoulos, who were on the 70th launched the raid and 54th days of their respective hunger strikes in after being told they Greek prison at that time. The game was broadcast would have to pay for nationally in Greece leading to much coverage of the food. the struggle. January 18, Greece - Another 5 political prisoners (including 3 prisoners accused of being alleged members of November 17 with explosive devices, and fires followed the organisation) have been refusing food, in blasts, spreading to nearby parked vehicles. Just solidarity with the anarchist 2 hunger 3 minutes earlier, another explosive device had strikers arrested on the 6 May. exploded outside the ruling party’s offices situated on Lefkossias 16 Str, in Agios January 17, Athens, Greece - Students Panteleimonas. The blast caused damaged to and teachers participated in a rally against both the offices and nearby parked cars. Finally, the government’s plans to reform higher an unknown perpetrator riding on a motorbike education and introduce private universi- hurled an object at a National Bank branch on January 26, Hamburg, Germany - “Revolutionary ties, turning the city centre into a battle- Skoufa 11 Str, in Kolonaki, smashing the Anti-Militarist Activists” burned the Mercedes of a ground of billowing smoke for hours. windows. senior manager of arms company Blohm & Voss People clashed with the heavily armed maritime systems and threw coloured bags of paint anti-riot units, and youths hurled petrol January 6, Berlin, Germany - A Molotov sets on the house of another manager. They wrote bombs at police, burning four cars and ablaze a McDonalds, while the writing left on the “Attack the NATO war conferences in Munich – one shop. Police retaliated with several wall says “McDonalds kills” and “Smash paralyse the G8 meeting in Heiligendamm”. rounds of teargas that choked up the Capitalism” - refined by an A in a circle. capital’s streets. January 26, Hamburg, Germany - “Revolutionary January 3, Berlin, Germany - To criticise Anti-Militarist Activists” burn the Mercedes of a top- January 15, Oranienburg, Germany - The miserable working conditions in global factories armament-manager of Blohm & Voss Maritime ‘Militant Group’ (MG) puts out of use two producing for companies like Adidas, a group Systems and throw coloured bags of paint on the cars of Federal police - which MG smashed each and every big window of the house of another manager. They write “Attack the describes as a central organ of persecu- central Adidas company store in the city centre. NATO war conference in Munich – paralyse the G8 tion and deportation - by making them go meeting in Heiligendamm” up in flames. The MG directly relates their January 3, Straumsvik, Iceland - In the first action to the militant campaign against the week of the New Year ELF (Earth Liberation January 23, Brighton, UK - Unannounced anony- G8 and calls for further attacks. Front) struck in Iceland for the first time. The mous action at EDO MBM, (an arms company). 10- target was the Alcan Aluminium smelter in 20 masked campaigners caused a scene in EDO’s January 12, Athens, Greece - The left Straumsvik, Hafnarfjordur which is being car park and loading bay using claxon horns, to let wing anti-imperialist group ‘Revolutionary expanded into pristine lava fields. This factory is the workers know that the campaign to shut down Struggle’ (EA) claimed responsibility for a part of ongoing heavy industrialisation of the the factory will not back down until the facility is rocket attack against the American Icelandic wilderness powered by large dams and closed. embassy. The attack happened at 6 am, geothermal power stations all around the country. and caused damage to the building Three pieces of machinery (2 diggers and a crane January 24-28, Davos, Switzerland - Demonstra- without anybody being injured. In a five- truck) were heavily sabotaged and the ELF tions against the World Economic Forum attracted page document, published Jan. 25 in the signature was left on a work-shed wall. several hundred people each. Actions included a Greek weekly newspaper Pontiki, hunger strike of the political prisoners Marco Revolutionary Struggle (EA) said that its January 4, Ajaccio, Corsica - In time with the visit Camenisch and Erdogan Elmas, banner drops in Jan. 12 rocket attack against the U.S. of the French Minister of the Interior, Nicolas St.Gallen, graffiti, and paint, stone and firework Embassy in Athens, Greece, was an “act Sarkozy, to the island, some bombs damaged attacks against VW, KPMG, Ernst & Young, SECO of retaliation” against U.S. military banks and a state financial office in the capital. and DAP. The people are also in solidarity with the involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Independence groups were responsible. declaration of the 5300 striking workers of VW, Middle East and Somalia. The group aims whose plant in Forest/Brussels (Belgium) is to break the alliance between the United January 3, Alsácia, France - Hundreds of cars endangered with closure and relocation. SECO is States and Greece and to rid Greece of were set on fire by people from the poor suburbs, the economic state department, DAP is a govern- any U.S. military presence. echoing the disturbances of last year over social mental body involved in social control and deporta- exclusion and the poverty of everyday life. tions. KPMG and Ernst & Young, Pricewaterhouse January 11, Athens, Greece - A string of Coopers and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu are advisory night time small-scale bomb attacks January 1, Setúbal, Portugal - In a district of the firms who seem to specialise in undermining trade rocked Athens. With a phone-call to SKAI Bela Vista area in Setúbal, 6 police intervened in unions, relocating of factories into low wage radio station, the group ‘Epanastatiki a fight between 4 young people, who immediately countries and also care for the rich and powerful on Apeleftherotiki Drasi’ (‘Revolutionary joined forces and fought back against the cops. how to evade taxes. KPMG, Ernest & Young and Liberation Action’) claimed responsibility The youths escaped and came back with 20 of VW are partners/sponsors of the WEF. for the attacks. Within about an hour and a their friends and rained down rocks and bottles half from 1am, the group attacked different against the agents. The conflict escalated until January 23, Nairobi, Kenya - Dozens of street spots in Athens. 3 banks were attacked practically all the police on service in the area had

5 December 16, Salford, England - A man parked his car next to the police station of Pendleton and threw 5 Molotov cocktails at the squad cars, damaging 2 cars. He escaped and was not arrested. Police are making an investigation.

December 11, Santiago, Chile - Anti-riot water canons had to disperse Chileans celebrating after having heard the confirmation of Augusto Pinochet’s death, near the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago. Pinochet, whose 17-year rule, marked by the torture and deaths of thousands, became a symbol of Latin American military repression, died at 91. Former UK Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher claimed she was “greatly saddened” by the death of Pinochet.

that make the thing work. Drop Oxford or been called to Bela Vista, then the riot was December 11, Istanbul, Turkey - Massive street else. ALF” exhausted. The death of a resident in this resistance against the Turkish state in response neighbourhood, in 2002, to the hands of a to widespread repression against the opposition December 17, Copenhagen, Denmark - Setúbal cop meant there was a strong feeling of movements. 2000 police with support of anti- Supporters of the building existing anti-police feeling already. terror units had attacked on Dec 7th the ‘Ungdomshuset’, which has been used as democratic structures of the civil society such as December 28, Tel Aviv, Israel a base for radical political groups and - Israeli anar- the federation “TEMEL HAKLAR” (“basic rights”), counter-cultural events for the last 24 chists blocked central Tel Aviv with razor wire and also against critical magazines and newspa- years, threw cobblestones, bottles and from the Apartheid Wall. The activists stretched pers. Infrastructure and institutions were fireworks at police, and built burning the razor wire across Basel Street with a sign destroyed or confiscated. Whole parts of Istanbul barricades in the capital city, in defiance of from the Wall that reads in Arabic, Hebrew and were turned into a battlefield. Organized and its planned eviction. “It was extremely English: “Anyone who touches the fence autonomous persons began to resist the violent. It looked like a war zone and it’s endangers their life.” The 20 people from the repression. The people built burning barricades, been many years since we last had to use group ‘Anarchists Against the Wall’, set up the which were very effective. The police used tear gas on the streets,” said the pigs. blockade at around 2pm and started handing out teargas, gas bombs etc. Many hundred residents Police responded with tear gas attacks flyers to passers by explaining the action. The tried to attack and to occupy a police station in and split the main crowd of demonstrators action was taken to protest the Apartheid Wall the Istanbul district Gazi. Many dissidents were into several smaller ones using armoured being built through the West Bank, as well as arrested, and some were freed due to the fire of cars. Groups of demonstrators walked severe travel restrictions on Palestinians. the people. toward the city centre smashing shop December 27, Athens windows, leaving a trail of destruction. The - Flash FM radio station December 4, Lisbon, Portugal - The Ministry of conflict over the youth centre has been was invaded and taken over by anarchists acting Science, Technology and Superior Education brewing since 2000 when local govern- in solidarity with the anarchist hunger strikers was attacked with Molotov cocktails. The group ment sold the building that houses the arrested 6 May, leading to nationwide coverage ‘Anti-Technological Shock’ claimed responsibility, centre to a right-wing fundamentalist of the situation. releasing a communique that stated that Christian church foundation. “biotechnology and nanotechnology are December 25, Hamburg, Germany - The group synonymous with social control and devastation December 17, Barcelona, Spain - “Against Colonialism and War” set fire to the car of nature”, stating that they are opposed to Decentralized sabotage against property of State-Secretary of Finance Thomas Mirow in recent developing projects in Portugal. front of his house, which also got damaged by speculation. People glued the locks of 51 estate agents in different quarters of heat of flames and blue paint bombs. He was December 7, Brighton, UK - EDO MBM, a Barcelona (Sant Andreu, Sants, l’Arpa de chosen as a target for preparing the G8 weapons company manufacturing products for Clot, Sagrada Familia and Eullia Saint). spectacle of imperialist reign and being at the the Israeli and US military, had their air-condition- The people claimed responsibility with a controls of power. ing system sabotaged and their 3 main gates message asking if each estate-agent locked shut in a night attack at the facility. December 22, New York, U.S.A. - The front of would reflect on the speculator machine and everything that it causes: interest, the Mexican Consulate was painted with slogans November 29, Minnetonka, USA - “On Monday “bubble real estate”, private corruption, in memory of Brad Will (anarchist and Indymedia morning employees at Antares Pharmaceuticals mafia politics, private-property, exploita- volunteer making a news article in Oaxaca, who discovered that over 30 windows at their offices tion, evictions, seizures... The official notice was killed by paramilitaries in the pay of the state in Minnetonka, MN had been damaged by glass finishes saying “we invite everyone that governor) and in solidarity with the Oaxacan etching solution. This is the price companies pay wants to make this their fight, sabotage all rebellion. for working with Huntingdon Life Sciences. Cut the real estate agents, banks, temporary all ties to HLS and you will be left alone. It’s that December 19, Oxford, UK work agencies and all others that provoke - Vodaphone mast simple. Every company working with HLS needs this precariousness that exploits us day by sabotaged by the Animal Liberation Front in to realize this and stop doing business with day. It’s up to your imagination! Autono- protest at their dealings with animal abusers at puppy killers before they are forced to spend mous groups Against the Speculation”. Oxford University. Here is the anonymous claim: thousands of dollars on repairs to their offices. “not too long ago the ALF visited a Vodafone Dedicated to the SHAC 7!” mast near Oxford and burnt the heavy-duty wires 6 November 29, Middlesex, UK - Riots and fires at merchandise and in our time of leisure to these buildings, a shed full of alarms and security Harmondsworth immigration detention centre, in consume what we ourselves produce. We cameras in via Fermi, in Correzzana (MI). Inside protest at intolerable conditions. Many detainees see everything; it’s very black and singular, this place they breed animals for vivisection. were beaten and there was a lot of damage, we only have left the struggle against that Harlan is one of the major breeders for Italian flooding and destruction. The private security which is turning to us into slaves. For that research labs, part of a multinational dealing in company, Kaylix, (former UK Detention Services), reason, we are not going to remain suffering, with divisions in many countries around which is responsible for the facility, was forced to watching while they do what they desire, the globe. Harlan Italy’s annual income of 7 million flee, and specialist teams of riot control prison using means anyone can take, we face up euros is a clear statement: vivisection is a guards were called to put down the rebellion. A to this developers project. Capitalism is lucrative business. Knowing that mice, dogs, BBC television helicopter was ordered to leave the made present everywhere and therefore in monkeys, pigs, rats, rabbits and guinea-pigs were area by police, after it filmed desperate people all sides it is possible to strike it. Although in the cages, in complete solitude, without any making the word ‘Help’ out of bed sheets on the the works have begun in Luko, in all the comfort or loving contact, waiting to be deported floor of the exercise yard. Stop exclusion and towns can be done something, the towards a future of torture, is what moved us into racism! companies that are carrying out the action. The night of Monday 20th of November, a Eastern project have seats, the political cold and moonless night, as silent shadows we November 27, Athens, Greece - 11 surveillance administration and parties that also protect reached our target, a gruesome monument to cameras were set on fire in different areas of the it. Therefore the fight must open and human callousness. Through a hole in the city. The first one was burned at 11.50 and the decentralize, so we animate to everybody ventilation system room we gained access to the actions lasted for 3 and half-hours. This happened to get organized in his or her towns with false ceiling. Lifting portions of the false ceiling 3 days after the General Head Chief of Police of their people to stop this barbarism. and using a stair we found ourselves in the rooms Athens made an indictment of any cases of people KAPITALISMOARI HORTZAK ERAKUTSI! where mice and monkeys are bred, going past the being in charge of the 180 (officially) burned CCTV AHT-rik EZ!” alarm system on the doors. Here we set ourselves cameras in the city of Athens since the summer of at work to bring out as many animals we could, 2004. November 23, Imola, Bologna, Italy - take documents and destroy equipment. Harlan Actelion Italian offices in Imola have been rodents are bred under SPF conditions, which November 25, Oaxaca, Mexico - Extensive attacked by “a storm of paint bombs”, an means aseptic ones: dozen plastic boxes under a fighting throughout the city as the insurgent anonymous communique claims. The filtered air system. What they do to these small population fought against the return of state forces. action is against the use of HLS by living beings is pure sadism and is at odds with The Mexican government is battling hard to put Actelion, one of the main customers for the idea of humanity’s saviours they built for down this popular insurrection before it spreads this lab. “We will smash HLS piece by themselves. In this division Harlan offers their across the country. Hundreds of thousands of piece, brick by brick, customer by customers also surgical preparation of the people blockaded the streets in a ‘Mega March’. customer”, the communique said. animals: organ removal or mutilations. Moreover, Rebels set fire to government buildings and tourist we also documented the presence in their hotels, as well as cars, on that night, in response to November 21, Barcelona, Spain - Urban refrigerators of bodies that the fury of these police and government repression and capitalist unrest as anarchists set burning barri- scientists has made impossible to recognise: exploitation. Graffiti on the justice building set on cades in two different neighbourhoods, mice with smashed skulls or crucified with pins, fire called it the “injustice” tribunal. Over 400 here is the vindication: “: Action by the rats with opened abdomens and completely people were “disappeared”/ kidnapped and the Anarquia... that extends the conflict in all disfigured rabbits. In a crowded bare cage, full of state forces fired on demonstrators. Many people the fronts. In solidarity with the popular faeces and with no window, about thirty have been killed and are missing, with extensive revolt of Oaxaca, the revolt of the French macaques were looking for comfort, clinging one reports of torture. In one instance of state provoca- suburbs, with the struggle of all the to the other, traumatized and unhappy. But tonight tion, a group of paramilitaries set fire to a residen- conscious individuals that have become these animals have met the opposite side of tial building and creating a diversion to attack the aware of the only means to reach the human beings and felt the warm embrace that university, creating chaos with which they aim to freedom, is to reappropriate themselves of took them away, far away. Hundreds of mice, destroy the resolve of the people. People are still our lives and to end any type of authority, many ready to be delivered, and 18 macaques are resisting and defending their autonomous areas and in solidarity with our own fight here now in our hands, free. Fronte di Liberazione and free radio station. and now, we want to animate and extend Animale” the conflict and the social war in all the November 23, Abadino, Basque Country - Action fronts. For it, we want to put our small against TAV high-speed train at 7:30am. A train in effort; this is the reason why we the yard of Matiena was put out of use. The train claim the arson of around a was filled with paint and this communique has dozen containers in the been distributed: “As you already know work began Barcelona districts of Sants two months ago, for the (TAV) high-speed train, in and Gracia. Onward and the Alava locality of Luko. This project very hard upward, until all authority supposes a blow against our ecosystem, devastat- ends. By nosotr@s ing mountains, valleys; drying and contaminating mism@s, the Anarchy, underground waters. It will happen over a large social liquidation, war in all area and the earth will be exploited and devas- the fronts.” tated, supposing a long lasting blow for ecology; surely its disappearance. But despite the destruc- November 20, tion that is happening to our ecosystem, we know Correzzana, Italy - very clearly that the train of high speed, is not but ‘Harlen’ animal vivisection one more piece of the capitalist system to carry out breeders raided and its new economic reconstruction. Behind this liberated by Animal project are the interests of the great multinational Liberation Front, here is companies that direct and control everything. Us the claim: “Some here, we are ourselves immersed in its world, buildings may seem like where we are only merchandise, consumers. Its’ they are impossible to progress condemns and reduces our life to going raid, but only a few really to work, to study, that is to say, to produce are. Harlan Italy is one of

7 India, Russia, South links with the filthy animal torturing scum at Oxford Korea and other University until we can destroy a few more towers. major economies. Watch this space. This action is dedicated to the memory of Barry Horne. For the animals. Animal November 17, Liberation Front” Athens, Greece - Large demonstra- November 11, Nottingham, UK - In an outbreak tions commemorat- of frustration, rioters set fire to cars, fought police ing the student and built barricades in a housing estate, after the uprising against the outcome of a topical murder trial was ruled against military junta of 1973 their interest. happened, but were heavily attacked by November 4, Galicia, Spain - Fur farm raid in police, and many Galicia. More than 1500 mink were released from people were cages at a farm in the town of Xinzo de Limia detained in a (province of Ourense) during the night, here is the widespread police communique received by activists in Spain: operation across the “During the night of the 5th of November we whole city. Despite wanted to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Barry’s the clampdown, the death by opening every cage of a mink farm manifestation was located in Damil, Xinzo da Lima (Ourense).” More better attended than than 2000 minks could enjoy for first time freedom, previous years and a after being kept all their lives in a cage. This action growing current of has been carried out a few days before they were rebellion is evident. massacred to take their fur. There’s no other way to give the minks freedom, so we encourage animal November 15, liberation activists to act in conscience. In memory Berlin, Germany - of Barry Horne. ALF” Philippine Embassy November 20, San Francisco, California - attacked in solidarity with Sagada 11, here November 2, Magreta, Italy - Arson in solidarity Approximately 150 people blocked the en- is the claim: “We attacked the Philippine with imprisoned ‘Il Silvestre’ eco-anarchists and for trances to the Oakland Bay Bridge during rush Embassy in Berlin with colour on the night the memory of Barry Horne: “We claim the arson hour. Paint was splattered on the doors of the of 15 to 16 November. In addition the that destroyed the meat lorry of Montorsi company Mexican consulate, as well as the doors locked following Graffiti was added: ‘LIBERTY in the night between November 2 and 3. Incendiary shut by demonstrators. These actions were FOR THE SAGADA 11’. We accom- devices have been placed under the lorry. This taken in solidarity with the Oaxacan struggle. plished this action in the context of the action is in memory of Barry Horne and in solidarity international action day for the Sagada 11 with Silvia, Benedetta, Costantino and Federico, November 20 Tucson, Arizona - In the early on 17 November. . . The Sagada 11 is a forced in a prison. ALF” hours, anonymous individuals made a solidarity group of anarchists, who were arrested in action with the struggle in Oaxaca. They the Philippines due to wrong accusations October 31, Canary Islands - A group of 144 smashed out the windows of the National Law nine months ago; they were tortured and Gambians deported from Spain went on the Centre for Inter-American Free Trade, glued their degraded. Since then they sit in detention rampage at Banjul airport on Tuesday, smashing locks and painted messages reading, “Viva with only very little contact to the external windows, chairs and air conditioning units in Oaxaca” and “Free Trade = Death”. world. We see this smashing as the protest at being returned home. Thousands of attempt of the State against the anarchist West Africans have landed on the Canary Islands November 20 Greensboro, North Carolina- movement of the Philippines. And we on rickety boats this year hoping to find work in Affinity groups set up coordinated street cannot accept this unanswered. We Europe. Spain has been repatriating illegal blockades, shutting down rush hour traffic in demand the immediate release and an end migrants detained on the islands. “We were told downtown in solidarity with the Oaxaca of the torture and degradations. Liberty for about a transfer from the refugee camp to Madrid rebellion. the Sagada 11! Liberty for all prisoners! and Amsterdam, not that we would be deported Solidarity is a weapon!” The Sagada 11 home,” said Amadou Garra, one of the young men November 18 Melbourne, Australia - The have since been realeased, we wish them arriving in Banjul. Group of 20 (G-20) Summit took place this the best! weekend in a downtown hotel. Police struck out October 23, Hamburg, Germany - The headquar- with batons as protesters rushed the barrier in at November 11, Birmingham, UK - ters of DAL, the German Africa-Lines is set on fire least two places and at one site overturned Vodafone telephone mast set on fire, here to remind people of the colonial roots of today’s fences and broke through the initial cordon. A is the claim: “Hi vodafone just a quick e- global rule and exploitation. The group responsible number of officers were injured, but only one mail to say how much we enjoyed setting called for more actions against the G8, and the seriously. There were no reports of injured fire to your mast near Rugley outside imperialist legacy of the countries that make up the protesters but several were arrested. Over 100 Birmingham on Saturday. We wrapped an group. demonstrators used bins, bottles, witches hats old tyre around a big bunch of cables at and other objects to smash all the windows of a the base of the tower, stuffed it with October 10, Barcelona, Catalunya - After hooded large police vehicle. Protesters threw brown and towels, soaked the lot with lamp oil, and lit anti-capitalist radicals threw paint, stones and red smoke grenades, shrouding the front line it. We stood and watched for a few fireworks at the Museum of Contemporary Art, a area in a pall, and in one place hit police with minutes as the flames licked their way up meeting of European housing policy ministers was small stones, large plastic garbage bins and, the cables before leaving. Even from five shut down. occasionally, glass bottles. Police stood their miles away the vertical column of flame ground, sometimes lashing out with batons. above the treetops looked spectacular. October 6, Rotterdam, Holland - Activists Formed in 1999, the G-20 includes finance You are now the preferred target of the climbed onto the floating deportation prisons in the ministers and central bank officials from the A.L.F. in the UK so please don’t sever your harbour of Rotterdam, and blockaded the Group of Seven advanced industrial countries entrances by locking themselves to the gates. and the European Union as well as China, Brazil, 8 of the Swiss Consulate, then the people power supply.” The camp was surrounded by October 5, Concepcion, Chile - On the marched through the centre of the city police and the participants heavily controlled outskirts of the University of Concepción in handing out leaflets and making speeches. entering and leaving. Chile, members of the indigenous Mapuche Marco is an eco-prisoner of the Swiss Nation group “Coordinadora Arauco Malleco” State, and Erdogan is wanted in Turkey for August 26 - San Polo d’Enza, Reggio Emilia, (CAM) and supporters of the Mapuche the murder of a policeman, the anarchists Italy - Animal vivisection breeder farm ‘Morini’ struggle took over streets and battled police. denounce the lack of evidence and has been hit hard. This time activists claim with Repression and persecution against the condemn the political decision of a communique a daring action inside the farm, Mapuche people has been increasing and so Switzerland to extradite Erdogan to Turkey, where they entered through a hole cut in the some people decided to react with a the street which is known to torture its ideological fence and quickly managed to put paint stripper blockade while a bank was attacked, clearly opponents. and smash windows of the farmer’s car, throw making a connection between the struggle of litres of paint and lots of stones to the house the Mapuche and the capitalists who want to September 24, Copenhagen, Denmark - windows and smash the door of the offices, take their land. Police responded by attacking Riots broke out during a “Reclaim the gaining entrance while the alarm went off and with a water cannon and tear gas and then Streets” for Ungdomshuset and steal important documents. In those documents entering the university in search of the masked Christiania, 2 long-running autonomous the activist claim there is also the name of the blockade participants. After close to an hour of spaces. The police assaulted partygoers new vet, with a private letter where it is asked to combat, with various tires set on fire and a and people were forced to defend keep his name secret. No more! This is the fifth large quantity of Molotov firebombs thrown, the themselves, sparking a street-battle in time that activists managed to raid the farm, first police retreated, and no one was arrested. which over 250 people were arrested (3/ liberating 99 beagles, then with two arsons of a CAM distributed a communiqué, saying in part: 5ths non Danish), many people were hurt, car and a van, and last year with a similar quick “Freedom to all the Mapuche political 1 person in hospital with a broken arm and raid where windows and a car were smashed prisoners, imprisoned by this corrupt judicial 3 people are facing serious prison with axes and stones. The communique claims system, in connection with the Chilean sentences (Irish, Swedish and German). the whole action lasted just one minute. government of the moment. Freedom is not obtained by negotiating or begging, nor with September 13, West Midlands & July 7, Turin, Italy - A parcel bomb, the third of pitiful petitions. Freedom must be gained day Buckinghamshire, UK - Animal Liberation its type in one week, was delivered to Turin’s by day, with resistance and struggle. Out with Front cells carried out arson attacks council offices and addressed to the Turin the forestry companies and the big landown- against Vodafone installations in the West mayor, Sergio Chiamparino. The device did not ers, and the other capitalist vultures that Midlands and Buckinghamshire. These explode and no injuries were caused. One of despoil Mapuche territory and its wealth...” attacks will continue until Oxford University the other parcel bombs, which was delivered to and all those associated to it stop trying to a construction company contracted by the October 11, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan - U.S. build a new animal torture lab. Italian government around July 5, was claimed missile interceptor equipment was moved to by the Informal Anarchist Federation, but this an American military base in southern Japan September 9, Budapest, Hungary - attempted attack was not claimed. after being delayed for three days in port Thousands of angry demonstrators because of protests by locals. Riot police occupied the state television headquarters July 7, Berlin, Germany - The “Autonome Anti- carried shouting protesters away to allow a in Liberty Square, in the heart of Budapest, G8 Sports League” set fire to 6 Fiat cars and convoy of trucks that local media said probably Hungary. They also attacked the parlia- attacked a police station with paint bombs and contained 24 Patriot Advanced Capability-3 ment. Some police cars were burned. stones in memorial of Carlo Giuliani killed 5 (PAC-3) missiles. More than 100 policemen were injured. years ago during the anti-G8 protests in Genoa, The people had been gathering at Kossuth Italy. October 10, Niger Delta, Nigeria - Armed Square (in front of the parliament, pretty attackers seized a Shell oil facility, taking 60 near to Liberty Square) since Sunday July 5, Italy - A parcel bomb, the second of its workers and several soldiers hostage. The evening, with the strong will to send away kind sent in the month of July, was sent to attack, on a Shell field logistics base attached the government. Before that on the same COEMA, a business that is responsible for to the company’s Nun river flow station, was day a secret tape was leaked with a reconstruction work on the Temporary Resi- carried out by youths from the Oporoma speech from Gyurcsany Ferenc, the Prime dence Centre for immigrants awaiting repatria- community in the delta’s southern Bayelsa Minister. He had been secretly recorded tion. The package never detonated and was state. The station was shut down as a result of giving a speech at a closed meeting for safely defused by police. A note claiming the action, resulting in a production loss of members of his party and the government, responsibility left inside the package bore the about 12,000 barrels a day. declaring that the politicians in Hungary, seal of the Informal Anarchist Federation. In their including him, have betrayed the Hungar- statement of claim, the Informal Anarchist October 6, Midlands & South West, UK - ian people for years and lied about the true Federation warned, “we warmly advice to Arson attacks against Vodafone: “the night of state of the county. 102 police were rescind the contract” and further, “we will have October 6th saw two arson attacks against injured; they were attacked with cobble- no scruples about hitting hard those who vodafone installations in the midlands and the stones and bottles. Gyurcsany, a former collaborate even marginally with the COEMA south west these attacks will continue for as fast-rising Communist official, is reported enterprise. We call on the other F.A.I. groups to long as vodafone are connected in any to be one of Hungary’s richest men after join this campaign.” financial way to Oxford university. ALF” he moved from being a state bureaucrat to a private capitalist in 1989. His brand of September 29, Athens, Greece - A car ‘socialism’ is modelled on Tony Blair. belonging to the Spanish embassy in Athens was firebombed. Police said the vehicle with August 30, West Yorkshire, UK - Power diplomatic license plates was doused with lines were cut down during a ‘Camp for gasoline and set on fire in the downtown Climate Action’. Campaigners from the Exarchia district of the capital. camp also blockaded Hartlepool nuclear power station and Drax coal facility. North September 27, Istanbul, Turkey - Anarchists Yorkshire Police Deputy Chief Constable made two actions in support of the anarchist Ian McPherson said: “It’s certainly a co- prisoners Erdogan Elmas and Marco incidence that there should be three Camenisch. There was a concentration in front events within 24 hours all involving the 9 Why Anti-Prison? m

nothing but numbers on a list. When individuals are a danger to Some notes.. companies can pay prisoners with no themselves or others, simply about rights nothing for their forced labour, protecting society. It is clear that m - Mass confinement is why should they employ regular without a widespread radical re-take primarily a form of protection to workers? As a result, the rights and on the nature of mind, reality and ensure the smooth running of the pay of a worker is reduced, the symbolic culture, nobody will be system of private property, capitalism companies make savings and the 'cured', only put away from sight. and authoritarian rule. The vast products the prisoners produce pass Individuals who fail to be majority of prisoners are there into the free market at the same economically useful or conform to principally because they have value. Penal facilities are usually sited patterns of common reality will be committed crimes against, or in in low-income areas, where the hospitalised against their will. pursuit of, property. Prisons expand workers who will maintain the prison and become more developed and are usually low paid and poorly m - Modern mass society is an necessary as a gap between the rich trained, these workers usually come open prison, where everyone is and poor is created and increases. from the same target areas that will monitored, profiled, subject to arrest They clearly reflect the race and class fill the prison cells with prisoners. without charge, forced biometric divisions of the system, and are an Prison privatisation is a massive processing and indefinite arbitrary obvious form of social control aimed international business spanning detention. It is clear to see that these at the most precarious sectors of criminal, immigration and military control technologies and the industry society. fields. American businesses, such as behind them, through the nature of GEO Group (Ex- Wackenhuts) are a their application and production, are m - Prisons do not rehabilitate massive multi-national venture, and against all that free thought and or reform, they only brutalise. Modern several private prison companies are/ autonomy struggles to surpass. industrial society creates a were involved in the notorious Abu production line of damaged Graib prison in Iraq, and the m - Authority and Capital aim individuals whose only remedy Guantanamo Bay detention centre in to penetrate to the heart of the proscribed by the system are US-occupied Cuba. These individual by forceful and technical punishment, confinement and death. companies are always looking to means, to control the intentions and Prisons only hide the contradictions develop new markets to create and movement of the people. It is totally of the free market and the financial exploit. Routine abuse, humiliation possible that modern capitalist system; they do not resolve the and torture are a service provided for society could socially engineer prison problems of long term abuse, by contract and payment, and the abolition, only for society to become a unstable family background, drug companies involved reap lucrative bigger prison. It may be possible for addiction, and mental sickness. rewards. coercion, isolation and domination to Present society is a persisting remain in a post-prison society, nightmare of illusion, desire for - The ‘War on Drugs’ is a because as long as capitalism exists impossible consumption and total m weapon used to fight imperialist wars there will be exploitation and obedience to money. This unjust against rebellious autonomous domestication. Community mediation, capitalist system through its own populations and individuals. It has assembly and organisation must be contradictions, has produced created a specific class of people accompanied by the total restoration ‘deviance’ and ‘anti-social behaviour‘, that feed the prison industry with of the wrecked environment and the and hidden away in cells all those bodies and labour, and provide a absolute demise of State and Capital, who are unfortunate enough not to pretext for war against any social or 'justice' will remain in the hands of find a privileged outlet for themselves. movements that oppose capitalist those who wield power and The professional psychopaths, hegemony. Drug economy workers influence. sociopaths and abusers find a sure are an underclass of people position for themselves in politics, struggling to survive, and prohibition For us, the destruction of prisons is military or industry. All prisoners is about the suppression of their meaningful only in the context of the deserve a retrial without a biased economy, to prevent their means of complete dismantling of the capitalist capitalist judicial process. Without existing outside the system, or of the system and the entire industrial liberation of the poor and an equal various gangs that maintain it. process of exploitation and alienation. access to quality housing, healthy Prohibition of drugs is also food and meaningful lives, this culture specifically aimed at censoring the of fear and domination will remain. All alteration of consciousness; to solutions to the problems of maintain psychological control and reinsertion and ‘anti-social behaviour’ prevent subversion of the narrow are to be found in the community limits of lived experience allowed by itself, and no-where else besides it. society and culture. - Prisons are often sited in m m - Forced psychiatric areas of environmental fragility, and confinement and treatment is abuse often herald more development and and torture, committed in the name of expansion, often with exploitation of 'health'. It is about submission to local labour. Prisons are how the common ideas of normality and bosses would like to treat every behaviour and in those cases where worker, as a slave without rights, as

10 - To achieve a law in favor of the homeless Interview with people, they had to accept the condition, giving in to the system...

Also, having the bill passed, they thought they Rebel Jill, would get what they wanted, like facilities for homeless people. This sort of struggle was going on during Summer 2000 and Feb 2002. Anarchist KSO has been critical to what we were doing and didn't see our point. KSO were not against the Olympics. They thought it would help to get the government to provide people with shelters from Osaka, and other facilities, and it would be good for both sides, for everyone. They overlooked and tolerated eviction. This is how the regulation ### came in. They say it was introduced, based on Japan the opinions from people who lived in the park, but we don't think it was. It is their leaders who made the order not the people in the streets In Spring 2006, after weeks of police city. The Osaka authority made a and parks. The people themselves didn't want attention and media build-up, a squatted schedule to "clean up" the city for it. camp in Utsubo Park, Osaka, was evicted by their visit and wanted to start evicting a mass of city officials and police. The park is people from parks. Speaking from the side of KSO, it was the being re-developed for the World Rose most they could do. In order to get support Convention, which is a touring spectacle of - SSSo it was a similar situation. That from the government, they had to compromise money and specialist horticulture. That people time, they accepted your request for and agree to the terms, which did not reflect were living there was no consequence to the negotiation. the voices of the people. authorities, they were merely displaced. The city parks of Japan hold many people, who, Yes, unlike this time. Yeah, this is the reality, the constitution made excluded from the industrial, technocratic city did not reflect any criticism and analysis, create neat villages of blue tarpaulin, and try - What sort of organization is became pure compromise. The constitutional to live their lives as beautifully as they can. happening in the park amongst the clause referring to eviction didn't get turned homeless people? down. We want to take everything back and Rebel Jill is a local anarchist living in the start from scratch. The regulation is supposed Kansai area, who has been involved in the There are NPOs (Non Profit Organiza- to be revised after 5 years to reflect people's struggle for many years. We talked to him tions.), and local support groups like voices. They said we can change it in our about the evictions, about anti-capitalist us who actually get involved with terms. But laws are, once made and put into resistance in Japan, and about fascism and the people who sleep outside and fight practice, difficult to change. They will gain their Yakuza (Traditionally organized criminal gangs, with them in eviction etc. Roughly momentum and move forward with massive often involved in right-wing politics). speaking, the groups can be divided power. It doesn't matter what they are about, into these two sides. NPOs are mostly they would be transformed arbitrarily by those old radical Marxists, I am ashamed to who use them for the advantage of the - So, Rebel Jill, Can you talk about the say this and not many people over- authority. I don't see much point having a law. recent eviction in Utsubo Park? seas would believe it, but most of No matter how many they made, they'll use them are.. One of the groups that laws in their terms. It means we have to do it Rebel Jill : Osaka Council used a method that politically took the side of people who by ourselves and need to figure out what we hasn't been employed before. They used to sleep on the streets and help them is can do to change the situation. give us a notice in advance, which meant we Kamagasaki Support Organization could do our best to avoid eviction by seeking (KSO) (kamagasaki shien kikou). They - As a group, KSO is the oldest? ways to resist. For example, the case in Nagai are based in Kamagasaki. They think Park five years ago, we could bring it to a what comes first, before finding work Its base was Kamagasaki Day Workers Union stage where we got them to negotiate with us, for homeless people, is to assure the and other groups who belonged to the union. to agree to stop the eviction in the end. This roof over their heads. Work and other They tended to conform to the local govern- time, they did not respond to our request for rights only come after making sure that ment, accepting various conditions from them, negotiation. No matter how hard we tried to get there is a place to stay, which is their like playing a role of the police in the commu- the opportunity to have a talk with them, they stance. In July 2001, with co- nity. did not accept our request till the end. Many operation with the government and problems could be resolved by negotiation. financial body in Osaka, they made - Is Kamagasaki Patrol (KP) one of them? Even on the 30th January, we were ready to constitutional rights for homeless solve the matter by talking if they wanted. people, (Homeless Tokubetsusochiho). They are not one of them. They are an Kamagasaki Support Organization autonomous group. The official name in English - How about the eviction in Nagai Park? Is contributed a lot to the birth of this would be Kamagasaki Patrol for Self-Defence there anything that caused that eviction five constitution by making a draft them- and Mutual Aid, otherwise it is easy to misun- years ago like the World Rose Convention selves and lobbying parliament. One of derstand as it sounds like the police... As KP, this time? the conditions of the constitution being we've been going around parks and talking to passed was to kick people out of the people who sleep in the tents, to find out what It was the Olympics. There was an initiative to parks and to normalize the situation. they really need, what we can do with them for invite the Olympic games in 2008. Osaka was KSO agreed to the condition and they their benefit. KP started in 1996 as a self- one of the four cities that were left till the end forced it through, I would say, talking defence group of activists, which was triggered of selection, which included Beijing, Toronto, from our side. They had to make a by an incident of an outside sleeper being Paris and others. In the end of Feb or the compromise as they always make pushed into Dotonbori River by a teenager. beginning of March, the IOC (International strategic moves. Olympic Committee) came to investigate the 11 ments to support and work with our thing, they can do their own stuff - Does each park have something like an homeless people have developed. We there." On the other hand, in the eyes of autonomous community? were conscious of and taking an authority, they don't really see who is doing example in overseas approaches like what but just see us on the macro level as Yeah, something like that. Each park has Food Not Bombs. those who would bite them back. It doesn't different problems and the situations vary from mean anything to them the fact that these one community to the other. So it's necessary - What could be the focus in the movements operate separately. It's also for to have a local group. For example, a group in movement? the benefit of each campaign because each Nagai Park, Friends of Nagai Park originated in group has its own local issues to deal with. Nagai Conflict. There's one in Nishinari Park It's a problem of poverty. To think of However, these days, repression has got and one in Utsubo Park. Locally made groups poverty, Capitalism plays a great role. harsher and stronger in the past decade. unite with each other and fight together when Capitalism running down the hill, like a Especially in the past five years since Iraq something happens. cart with broken brakes, running war and really starting from 9/11. The around frantically, without regulation. United States makes demands of Japan, - There is also Nojuku o Kangaerukai in Well, it doesn't make much difference saying "What are you doing in your Nagoya, a union for people who sleep to us whether it actually has regulation country? Do something!" The repression outside. or not, but it creates the source of coming from the Japanese government is poverty. The kind of activity that we do getting severe. There's a strong need for Yeah, that's the same group organized with is a sort of anti-thesis to it, supporting solidarity. We need to fight against it some of us. One of the members together. of a group we used to have was called Kuroi Bu (Black Group : - Are there any anti-war groups? anarchist / autonomous group), with Otake-kun as one of the main Yeah, there are some... members. We don't have repre- sentatives in our groups. - Anyone in particular to name?

- Tokyo has also a homeless Well, I don't really like them, union? personally, but there's a group called P.S.M. I can't remember their Yes, there's Noji Ren based in official name. Because I hate them, Shibuya. They are the biggest and I can't even remember and don't the most closely knit organization, know their name. a sort of nationwide group. We started with them. Others are - Are they leftist and conformist? Sanya, Kotobuki in Yokohama, Sasajima in Nagoya, Kamagasaki They talk to the police. in Osaka. We started a different group as we community by helping out people who wanted to work closely with the people we see. sleep outdoors, those who after being - Oh dear... used by Capitalism and Government - Is Noji Ren still active? are abandoned, dumped and forgot- It seems like they try to maintain a policy ten. What we are doing is fundamen- that they need to talk to various kinds of They've been going for more than 10 years. tally resisting the effects of Capitalism, people to gain their point, and they also as well as Japan's monarchial want to make a movement which is more - There are many homeless people in Chiba hierarchical society. The struggle extensive and open, which I understand. as well. against poverty is related to various But...something's not right. They don't talk kinds of problems. or listen to people. To be accepted by the I guess some people move from Tokyo. Of system, they tell radicals not to do this and course some are local, starting to sleep on - Looking at some movements, for that... Once we were at a demonstration, streets after losing their jobs. example, anti-nuclear power station their stewards constantly told us to walk movements or campaigns against inside the permitted lines and listen to their - Could you tell us about the resistance construction of an airport like Narita organizers. They like to take control over a against Capitalism in Japan? Do you think airport, I get the impression move- situation from the top. At one time, they that the main surge of the struggles was with ments in Japan seem to be largely even held a dinner party with the police the student & labour movements in the 60's single-issue and operate independ- public safety department to eat together and / 70's? ently... become friends, to assure that they're gonna get along although they stand on the Yes, you could put it that way in short. What They exist separately.... I guess that's different sides. We got furious, thinking who we are doing is probably a new type, coming what they seem objectively and they the hell are they? We decided not to do from people on the streets. are certainly like that. That's a good stuff with the people like them. The move- point. ment was getting bigger at that point but the - When did this new type start? Kuroi Bu (Black Group) couldn't stand their - How about networking in Japanese attitude and decided to leave after taking Support groups for rough sleepers started in anarchist movements? Has there some part. The anti-war movement became the mid 90's, around 1994. The incident been any sort of network? big but when the left-pacifist organizations directly related to it is the eviction which tried to make it bigger they got sucked into happened around Shinjuku West Exit (Tokyo). Well, in the old days some efforts the system. They were content to keep If you ever have a chance to go to Shinjuku, were made to make a network, which peace with the authorities if they let them you'd see the place where there was a big riot, lasted for a short time. Individualism appeal what they want. At the same time, a square in Shinjuku West Exit. It happened in gradually took over the trend. People there were so many people who got January, 1994. Since that time, more move- started to think, "Yeah, we are doing arrested. Their conformist attitude repulsed us. 12 activity but collect money? - Will you name some groups you used to work with at that time? They're gone because of repression and - How about other movements like intervention from the authorities. It's a bad against nuclear power stations? That would be a Japanese anarchist comparison, but like AUM (cult who did poison network, which didn't become public. It's not gas attacks on the Tokyo subway), the There are very strong movements that they were a secret society but it wasn't government clamped them down. around the Japanese islands and really official. This group issued a monthly many of them exist, like in Obama in libertarian magazine, Free Will. Looking - What kind of practice did they have? Fukui. Wherever there is a nuclear back, you could say that it was a sort of power station or a location for it, philosophical momvemnt. Since 1970s, In short, they were focused on nature, and there's resistance. In Ashihama, anarchist groups had been scattered around practiced the ways that people can coexist with people have fought more than thirty and worked separately, which they tried to nature in a form of commune. They were an years against the construction of a get them in a network again based on the autonomous group with self-sufficient farms for nuclear power station. It is one of the free will as a free union. They had a radical their food supplies and operated as a base of locations where Chubu Denryoku, an part and idealistic part in the group. Conflicts network to send off messages and newsletters between the two groups, and to receive other non-violence group and radical information and pro violence group have contacts from outside. been incessant problems. - How long did they last? - I've seen some books on Japanese anarchism It must be in the 80's, so and some web pages, around ten years. In but there are only a few 1988, just before the sources online. emperor died, they were clamped down. Anarchist movements started after the war, quite - And it is them who later than Marxist move- were involved in the ments which set up a actions to preserve coral Japan communist party. reef? Anarchist groups were trying hard, supporting Yes, it is. So that sort of workers movement in coal people who do environ- mines etc., but could not mental actions. Another electricity company that used to be a stand up to the communist power. interesting feature to their history is that they public sector planned to build a power invited AIM (American Indian Movement) to give station. They control power supply - Are anarchist groups in Japan still visible a talk in various places. Also, you know around Aichi, Shizuoka, Mie and Gifu. in workers struggle? Kumano that is in fashion now... Ashihama is in Mie, on the beach near the sea and Kumano River. Their fight They were at that time and I think anarchist It's a shrine - Kumano Taisha, World Heritage was successful because of the strong movements should be supporting workers Site, located in the Kii Peninsula. On the bank community solidarity. The company movement, varying in degrees depending on side of Kumano River, they invited some and authorities used harassment which the time. What we are doing at the moment activists for an event with plays and talks. They was really evil, trying to inflict some may be close to what they did at that time constructed a sort of sub-culture, hippie damage on them. But people resisted although we hadn't been unable to make community. There's some interesting things with the strong solidarity of the quarterly journals. That's some thing we'd going on in Japanese environmental move- community. Without it, they would like to do in future, discovering what they did ments. Also, in Fukui, there are many environ- have failed. Most of the resistance in the past. mental activists and communities. In Takefu, movements are connected to environ- some people who used to be activists run an mentalism. After the war, there were two groups, organic farm, living like hermits, engaged in anarchist club and anarchist union. They natural farming. Hokkaido is another place for In Ashihama, a project called remained till the end of the 70's and the the environmental movement as well. Another Urashima Project (comes from a tale beginning of the 80's, when the government example is in Kumamoto prefecture, there was called Urashimataro) was supporting clamped them down. In the 90's, the a big struggle against the building of a huge the community of the fishing village. anarchist movements revived once again. dam. Many people fought when Itsuki village People involved are ex-hippies and Around that time that's when anarchist went under water, and the people struggled to activists who have fought in various movements in Poland started and we preserve the Kawabe River. places in Japan, for example, against supported each other... We tried to use Shiraho airport in Ashikaga Island. Esperanto... - How about movements against American Some of them were involved in the military bases? campaign to protect coral. Some are - Can you say something about environ- from a sort of commune in Amami mental movements in Japan? The biggest one is in the metropolitan area, Oshima (island), called Nigari Dojyo. Tachikawa, Yokota base etc. In Tachikawa, the Various people were helping the Greenpeace in Japan is just about US made a base for the Japanese Self-Defense project. Anti-nuclear power station noticeable. They don't seem to stand out forces and anti-militarists built a village of tents movements are strong and interesting much... near the base, a bit like the anti-nuclear base in to look into among others. Faslane, U.K. They have been getting repres- -They don't seem to have done much sion from the police and the government just for - Does Nigari Dojyo still exist? giving out leaflets in the base of the Self- Defense Forces. In Yokohama, Zushi, the 13 residential area in the American base has language and they are not Japanese. people from Korea and North Korea living in been having problems. It's still Japan and Sometimes, people from Okinawa Japan also. Osaka is the city where most of they are in their own houses, but just cannot rent a house or room. Some them live. because the houses are in the base, they estate agencies in Osaka have a note have to show ID or pass card to go through on the door saying "Not rented to - They have community organisation in the gate, or they have to let the soldiers know those from Okinawa" and say things Osaka? who are coming to visit. They need to get like "We don't deal with them as they registered with them. are irresponsible and don't pay rent." Yes, they've been there for long time and their community groups are coming to a - Is there any resistance? - Do you think people moved from stage for negotiation with the council and the Okinawa escaping from occupation of government, trying to do things allied with the Yes, not that the people particularly want to the American base? council, as there's an issue of their disabled get involved in it but there's no choice. They people. Before they were quite radical but live in the base and are forced to register with Well...yes those who moved after the now they are communicating with the them and get checked up for ID every time war. The American army destroyed government. Before the war, they were they go home. There are supports from their farms and lands with bulldozers. tremendously discriminated against by people outside against the base as well but often the They couldn't make their living in in Osaka, which lead them to form a sort of residents are not so tied to the support groups Okinawa anymore as their fields are Mafia for self-defense to protect their lives. because they are normal people who don't robbed for the base. They faced the Some youth became like kids in overseas particularly want to interact with activists. Still, choice to move to what they call and some belong to motorcycle gangs. The the right wing, pro-American base people see 'Daichi' (the earth) or Yamato, the reason why they became like this is they them standing on the same side. The Mainland. Then, they came to mainly needed a way of self-defense, otherwise they residents have been appealing to the Osaka. would have been looked down on and government but it's not going well. treated badly. They had no choice other than In the north, in Misawa base in protecting themselves. Some Aomori, there's a resistance became elite like Kan San Ju, a movement. There's, of course, one professor in Tokyo Uni. I think the in Iwakuni in Hiroshima around the existence of their self-defense bay area, it's the navy base where gangs has saved their communities the US sends forces to Iraq and till now. Without them, they could Afghanistan. Also, in Sasebo and not have kept them as they are. Nagasaki, not to mention Okinawa. They fought extremely with Okinawa is the main place for Japanese. Still now in Osaka, resistance movements against the there is a general fear towards American base. It's been occupied Koreans and North Koreans living by the American base since Japan in Japan, which comes out as pre- lost the war. emptying aggressive behaviors towards them when something Since 1945, 30th of June when disturbing happens in Korea or Japan surrendered to America, it's North Korea. For example, when been subjected to the control of the North Korea was threatening American base and occupied. Japan, high school girls in Korean Before that, it was occupied by the Japanese schools in Osaka were attacked army. Before them, it was the Satsuma Clan, - Once they are in the Mainland, they with knives and had their school uniforms of who invaded into this island, claimed that it's underwent discrimination. traditional Korean dress cut through. their subject state, exploited its people by trading and made a huge amount of money. That's right... - Do you want to talk about fascist Okinawa is the place that has the most movements in Japan? American bases. It has been constantly - Are there any resistance move- invaded, by the American army, which just ments against racism and discrimina- It's very timely as the 11th of February is a cannot stop invading all around the world, and tion? day for fascists, a national holiday for the by the Japanese army, I wouldn't like to call Commemoration of the Founding of the it 'Self-Defense Force' as it is an army, Yes, there are some. It might sound a Nation. It's a day to celebrate the origin of who's been living on a part of the profit of the bit strange but the Okinawans might Imperial family in Japan. It is called 'Kigen American army. The land has been lent to the have preserved their traditional arts setsu' refering to its origin, also used to be American base, which doesn't mean the and culture in Osaka more than those called, before the war, the 'Jinmu setsu' as people in Okinawa can do what they want. It in Okinawa. This happens sometimes in the Emperor Jinmu who was the first is supposed to be given back to their hands as in the example of overseas, like emperor in Japan. On this day, a lot of right years later. They've been suffering from this Japanese communities in Brazil kept wing and extremely conservative people extremely inconvenient and exploitative more traditional things. They've been gather to Kashiwara shrine in Nara. You can situation. Many of them have moved to the playing traditional Okinawa folk music see them driving frantically on the route 24 Kansai area (Osaka and surrounding regions) etc. very enthusiastically, as a sort of in the morning of the day, fighting for the first and formed their own communities as they voice within the Japanese anti-war arrival! have been discriminated against for a long movements. They say the Mainland, time. In Osaka, in Taisho-ku, they live in a what they call 'Yamato' , has always - Is that like Yasukuni* shrine in Tokyo? sort of ghetto. troubled them. There's a saying in their words "we are not their pieces on Well, Kashiwara is much more important for - What kind of discrimination do they meet? a game board." Even in anti-war them, like a heaven. All of them come to movements, they are marginalized. celebrate this day in this shrine with their A sort of idea started before the war. Some That's why they want to look for the flags in their hands. people say the Okinawans speak a different roots of their identity, their origin. I guess this is an issue related to

14 - Can you talk a little about Yakuza, and related issues about organized crime and day-workers?

In Tokyo, there are many so-called "Iranian people", as not all of them are actually from Iran. Especially in the early 90's, there were so many of them that the ruling class institutions felt threatened by their presence. Well, it's actually the ruling class who called them over in a way.

- Do you mean governmental officials?

It's Yakuza who arranged for them to come, so in a way they had to reap as they have sown. Especially the police and other areas of the ruling class who saw a sort of crisis, thinking Japan would be full of foreigners in the streets. They ran many campaigns against "Iranian people" using a big media network including FFC (Fuji Sankei Group), from "Yoseba", which are the areas where TV, radio, magazines to influence on public and urged them to pay the "Iranian day-workers hang around, like Kamagasaki in opinion. people". Osaka, Sanya in Tokyo, Sasajima in Nagano and many other places in Japan, to their - Could you tell me more about the relation- - As for Yakuza's activity, you were "Hanba" which are the places where they ship between Yakuza and "Iranian saying that they have strong power in have their own lodging facilities, in so-called people"? Do they invite them as workers? Nishinari district... can you tell me construction camps, and force them to work more about it? with hardly any pay. They charge for lodging Yes, Yakuza works as a broker and use saying, "You slept and ate here so you have them as a means to get money, having them Mostly they are involved in gambling. to pay for it." Day-workers won't have any sell things like forged telephone cards on the money left at the end of the day. In the most streets. Yakuza do not pay much and - How about prostitution? extreme cases, they say, "You used the tooth "Iranian people" don't earn much in the end, brush, which is such and such a price. You but it's them who are on the streets where They are not so involved in brothels used the pillow, which is such and such a the police control. They just oppress "Iranian officially now, as they are used to the price." They put prices on everything so that people" not Yakuza. extent that they can get a part of their day-workers won't have any money left. They income. For now, it's gambling that get totally squeezed out. - They were living in parks, weren't they? makes them money. On the streets and in front of the shops, they open One of the construction camps was in Yes, they had a sort of community in parks gambling dens. They get some money Yamanashi prefecture, in Otsuki. They took to exchange information, with a sort of from those places. Not only that but day-workers to the camp and sent them to market etc. and they would spend the whole also, they try to get money from those various places. It was built for experiments to day in the area. The police tried to kick them who are working. They stop day- run linear motor cars, something that Japa- out of the parks. At that time, there was a workers on the streets saying things nese high tech companies are proud of. The group called "Inoken" (a liberal network to like "Hey man, you have a quite well construction site was filled with big construc- defend life and rights) in Tokyo, who worked built body, don't you? Do you wanna tors like Tekken, Kashima Kensetsu etc. with "Iranian people" and fought against the come to our office today?" They work These big companies use Yakuza and get police oppression. Also, a group like us from as a sort of middle men. them to send day-workers, who are com- Kansai went to give them support so that pletely exploited, sometimes loaded with they can keep their community. In the end, - They get in between construction unlawful debt. They say, "You have too much despite all our efforts, they were removed companies and day workers? debt for us to pay you." They could get from the parks. kicked out without being given their share or Yes, and then they take the profits. So get beaten up for the debt, which was made - Considering the fact Yakuza was working these are the ways they make money, out of little payment and extra charges for behind "Iranian people", I wonder if they by opening gambling places and their lodging. We made claims against these gave them any back up in that kind of forcibly working as agents. Sometimes, unreasonable acts, saying what they are doing situation? not only being an agent exploiting is totally wrong. Sometimes day-workers die workers, the actual boss of a construc- by their illegal punishment and get buried in No, not at all, they only regard them as their tion company could be Yakuza. In any secret. There were three or four people killed hands or legs, or rather lizard's tail as if it case, Yakuza exploit workers. Day- as far as announced in the newspapers. We doesn't matter if it is cut off. So, when the workers and we need to do something could not make much of a move till these police informed them that "Iranian people" to fight against them. There are many incidents were disclosed because most of the were illegal, they just said, "Ah, they are fights and arguments going on. For people who managed to run away from them illegal. They've been troublesome for us as example, 'till last year, well, it's still are scared of risking their lives and do not well..." as if they have nothing to do with going on now, we had a big conflict make claims, which made it difficult for us to them. Of course we knew what they were with Asahi Kensetsu (a construction know what was actually happening. After the doing so we tried to do something in the company) who were running violent announcement, we gave out flyers in places case of them not being paid their salary. construction camps. like Kamagasaki, wondering if we might find more of their victims. A number of people who - Did you sue them or run a campaign? - Are they owned by Yakuza? hadn't been paid turned up, telling us stories like not having been paid 100,000 yen (500 We just went directly to their broker's office You could say that... they take people pounds) and so on. We complained to the 15 Sanya in Tokyo, Sasajima in Nagoya. uniforms that are traditional Korean costumes. Labour Standards Bureau etc., and managed to Big cities always have one. Kyoto A lot of female students wearing Chima get some money out of them. We were suspect- used to have one but now they only Chogori met this kind of incidents, having ing that Asa Kensetsu, formerly Asahi Kensetsu have a system to take people away (to their uniformed slashed or splashed with was also responsible for these incidents, and we construction sites). It's a fucking scary paints and so on. It happened so many times secretly traced their movements. system really. Yakuza control them that most of Korean schools in Osaka and Day-workers have no power. On decided to stop them from wearing it. Some - Is that a part of the reason they changed top of Yakuza, there are the police of them had incidents of some people driving their name? and big construction companies who into the school to shout at students and cannot control day workers by them- teachers. Most of extreme cases of terrorism Yes, they have had various names... This is selves and use Yakuza. This kind of are done by the right wing while terrorism by only the tip of the iceberg. I'm sure there are system has existed since very old days the left is small compared to the right wing, many other things they have done, and the as it is shown in a period film having except for Anti-Japan Armed Front. Once incidents related to Hanba just happened to be people always bullied and chased by they decided to do something, it's gonna be made public and were the worst cases. Hanba Yakuza for their debt on the bottom big, the coup d'etat. They've been preparing literally means a place to eat and has a system and a evil judge on the top. for one all the time. of exploiting workers, varying in degrees, by How are right wing organizations charging them for a place to sleep and eat even - How are right wing organizations - Do you think the right wing is hostile related to Yakuza? when there's no work which would leave them related to Yakuza? towards foreigners in general, or mostly to nothing in the end and then the company would North Korean people in Japan? cut them off. This becomes a struggle against Yakuza often form a political party as Yakuza. a way to get away with paying smaller Well... for example, the right wing in Tokyo tax. Often a right wing political party area and National Socialist Party, which - Are there any groups in mainstream fighting equals Yakuza although some are mostly consist of people who worship Nazis, against Yakuza? totally unrelated to them. Broadly were very aggressive towards so-called speaking, 80 % of the right wing is "Iranian people". I think they are still so, it's I don't think there are any as far as I know related to Yakuza. just not as bad as before. They used to shout because if a group publicises itself, it'll be a at them, "You are not supposed to be in good target for Yakuza and would be clamped - And the noticeable activities of right Japan. What are you doing here? Get out of down. Being underground and unknown is the wing extremists? Japan right now! Otherwise we're gonna kick only way to deal with them. Yakuza also have a you out!" Not only saying these things but connection with the police working as a kind of A lot... I might have told you before, also they used violence, throwing glass informers for the police. on the 11th of February, National bottles at them. They went around to the Foundation Day, but they call it Jinmu parks where the "Iranian people" gather and - Wouldn't the police do anything about setsu after the name of the first throw plants pots or bottles at the crowd. Yakuza? Emperor, all of them gather to the Some people got injured there. In other Kashiwara Shrine (Nara) and Ise Jingu cases, they stopped "Iranian people" on the Well, the police seem to be doing various things to make a speech saying things like streets and threatened them with a knife to control them but Yakuza work as a sort of Japan is in a serious crisis etc.... well, telling them to go back to where they come informers, which becomes a part of the police this is all they do on that day, but in from. In an extreme case that happened in a system. The police seemed to think that it would the past history, they've been involved train station, people who appear to be be better to use them as their tool rather than in various actions, political assassina- Iranians were tackled by them on the platform doing something that would make them stick up tion etc. Japanese right wings are and pushed onto the rail just before the train to them more. They would be useful, as they really active, militant and dangerous. came. I don't remember if they were run over are the ones who have a control over day- by the train or not. workers in towns, and control over places where - Can you give us any example? day-workers gather to be recruited for work. This - What about media coverage? How was the is a really traditional system between Yakuza One of the most suitable examples attitude towards these incidents? and the police. after the war is the assassination of Inajiro Asanuma, the chairman of the They put it up on TV news and papers but - Could you name those areas like Socialist Left. He was killed by a made it as if it was "Iranians" faults who Kamagasaki? youth, 16 or 17 years old, with a came to Japan illegally. A lot of them were knife. The boy killed himself too. When kicked out of Yoyogi Park and Ueno park it comes to a crucial moment, although some remained up to now. Most of they cause terrorism. them were forced to go back to their own countries or sent to a detention centre in The latest racist incident is Ushi-ku, which is on Ibaragi prefecture side in Korean female students having Chiba, north of Tone River. There are other had their school uniforms two detention centres for Asylum seekers and slashed with a knife. This is not illegal immigrants in Japan, one in the west is done exclusively by a right wing in O mura in Nagasaki, the other in Nagoya organization but by some people for people in the east. Those who get caught driven by public opinion or the are sent to the one in Ushi-ku, which is like a fear made by mass media prison. Immigration Center is in Ibaraki in saying North Korea trying to Osaka and they usually treat people like invade Japan. The government Chinese or Afghan who claimed Asylum quite has been saying we need to badly. prepare for it, having an armed force etc. There are many - Does Japan accept any economic Korean people and their schools migrants? in Japan, where students wear Japan has had a policy of stopping them

16 before they land for a long time unlike Korea. ways. Even without a constitution, they violence. Of course, the best way is to avoid it Very few people enter Japan except for those have a measure to control people but it is not possible. Even if we say, ok we who are sent or brought by gangs illegally. outside of the law. Although some do things in peace, then we'll get stabbed people might think we have some from behind. We need to have a defense - I wonder how they manage that. How do kinds of rights and will be protected by system. they come through passport controls? Do the law, I think the law is only made they have fake passports or something? for the benefit of the people who use it, as it is well described in the scene Repression against 'M', Usually they come legally first on a tourist, when people get caught by the police, student or short time work visa. Of course, hand-cuffed, beaten up and told that comrade in Osaka, Japan those with student visas have their names at they have a right to do such and such. schools but they don't have money or a will 'M' has been involved in the Kamagasaki to go to schools so never attend. - As a way to fight against Yakuza, Patrol (KP) for ten years; it is a support group we can collect the fact from the for/with homeless people to fight against the - So Yakuza do these procedures for the people who are damaged by their police and the councils repression in Osaka, people who want to come to Japan and activities and make a militant workers Japan. Although since 2001, the members work. union/syndicate. and activities of the group have changed a lot. 'M', who originally started the group, got Not only gangs but also brokers in their own We don't have so much armed force arrested and tortured, kept in a police station country are involved in the system. Yakuza now so...but in the 70's, some people for 20 days last October, after an incident of make a connection with local brokers who fix made unofficial groups and went to the group filming the council's attempt of up jobs in Japan. For example, women from attack Yakuza, taking them by surprise enforcing sanitation; the officials walk around Philippine called Japayuki san (people who at night with the masks on, beat them spraying disinfectants on people's houses in go to Japan) are sent through this system. up or scraped their nails. Of course, at the park. Five got arrested: four for The number of people who come never stops that time some people in Sanya were obstructing the council officers in the increasing because both brokers and Yakuza killed by Yakuza, two as far as I know, performance of their duties on the spot just by make a lot of money out of them. People Sao san who was a film director and filming and complaining. 'M' was arrested at who have been brought over here with just Yamaha san, which caused the home for a minor benefit fraud. He’s been on 1500,000 yen at the most, 1000,000 yen tension. With a strategy to fight back if benefit because of his severe depression at the least per year including flights, food we were attacked, we ended up losing mainly caused by working on construction sites and accommodation. They have hard lives. some lives. Yakuza is powerful with as a day worker in hard conditions. He Sometimes they get ill and have to go back. lots of weapons but we don't have worked for a short time last year so was Usually the extreme xenophobic and any, incomparable. waiting for tax office's letter for year end- nationalistic attitude of the Yakuza means adjustment. they are abandoned, or told to go back to They also import various kinds of stuff their own countries, to get out of Japan. It and make money by getting people to The claim is nothing but the police's intention doesn't make any sense to bring them here sell them, for example, LSD. Yakuza to clamp down against the movement by and bully them. is the people who control the drug seizing a central figure on minor charges. His market but never get caught. Only the lawyer contacted the group (KP) after a few - Is that because it is Yakuza who brought people who work for them and sell days and KP decided to expel him from the the people why the police don't do them get caught. Another way of group and stopped giving him support! The anything? financing their activity is consumer police started to press him harder with credit business, violent credit compa- questions, yelling at him, kicking the desk and I guess the police just tell Yakuza to have nies. Many people who are swindled chairs, not allowing him to leave the room for them under their control. Some of the illegal to use it and end up committing toilet. Still, he kept silence. 'M' was not activities get exposed but usually left to their suicides or sleeping on the streets. allowed to have any contacts with the outside own control. Until it gets too much the police Half of the people who sleep outside except for his lawyer, and kept in solitary leave it to them and make use of them as a are chased by Yakuza for non- confinement. The police refused to give him way to control people and as informers. This payment and cannot come out in any medication, which he needed. Conditions is the system the police employ, to work with public. There used to be no control on worsened and he was unable to eat any food. Yakuza and gangs. It is very well made. I this kind of business. The general Instead of putting him back on medication, the guess it is not only in Japan but also opinion was against people who police forced him a liquid diet. established in many other places, Middle borrowed money from them, seeing East, Spain, Italy etc. The government and them as bad and stupid who use evil When he finally came out of the cell, the ruling class sit on top of this system safely, companies. Lacking imagination, they activists welcomed him with numerous having people who rebel against them under never think of an occasion where questions based on the police information their foot with gang power. I guess it comes people have no other choice than about his private life. Surrounded by the men down to the point where we have to figure using Yakuza's loan. Yakuza is always sitting in hunches in a circle gleaming at him, out how to fight against this system, which is somewhere in a system of control. It's he was only saved when the other one, his quite difficult... a traditional old thing in Japan. You best mate and comrade turned up with a can see it in some period dramas on present from others. He's been a main force - Do you have any activities you can TV. of the struggle, which influenced throughout mention? Japan. Now his condition is worse than ever I guess we need to be able to use after the days in the cell, losing supports and As a strategy against Yakuza, we cannot force, violence to fight against them, betrayal of his fellow activists. He's lost his publicize, as it is dangerous, risking our but especially young people in there will to return to the movement and even to lives... Recently the government made a 20's don't really want to use any live. constitution to control violent organizational violence. It has always been a class activities, which is supposed to be applied to war for us but it is class peace for Any support/encouragement to be forwarded to Yakuza and the extreme right. But, in reality, them! It is nonsense to live with them him are welcomed to: [email protected] once it is made they can use it in many in peace! The only way is to use

17 - Is there any kind of community support groups struggling against Yakuza?

No, not really at all.

- When it occurs, it is very isolated and it's just individuals fighting back?

Yakuza also have undercovers in various places, so we are forced to live and do things with a sense of terror somewhere in our mind. You never know when you get attacked or where they are coming. It is quite difficult to foresee their attack. I guess this is the big task for us to think about, how to manage Yakuza.

Thank you very much for talking to us, Rebel Jill.

***A Memorial dedicated to the Japanese war dead, including known war criminals. It is a source of much friction between Japan, and the surrounding countries which it invaded in previous wars. Fascists often have a presence outside, agitating and giving out propaganda. Fascists can often also be seen in some Japanese cities, in blacked out SUV's, buses and motorbike gangs. Touring the streets or parked up giving outreach, it's not unusual to see them on loudhailers calling for the return of the rule of the Emperor, the subjugation of foreigners, and the usual fascist hate speech. Nagai park evicton

them in jail and then beginning larger thousands of the jobless proletariat. assaults on parks that would ordinarily Report from not be as vulnerable. Five arrests Fast forward towards late January and were made in September knocking the same process is being undertaken at out the major leaderships of Nishinari Nagai as we saw last year, the Nagai park kouen and the day laborer's union in procession of legal paperwork, the Kamagasaki. In the meantime posting of 'notices' and 'warnings' etc. eviction, Osaka evictions of small parks all over the Many people organized to do what they south side of the city took place, could to oppose the eviction of including Tennoji park (in central the tent village and also record what This is a brief report back on the eviction at Osaka) and many around Nihonbashi would happen when the police came. Nagai park in Osaka, Japan. Nagai was a (the electronics district). From the start, the attitude was large gathering point for day-worker unfortunately defeatist and for that squatters who pitched tents on its wide In December came an unprecedented reason problematic. Standing up in the grasses throughout the 1990s. The police raid on the Kamagasaki face of the national games must have squatting population was largely evicted in liberation hall (kaihou kaikan), with the been pretty intimidating because by late 2000 only to rebuild a smaller tent police investigating how it was January, the Nagai dwellers were still community, which was unique in its efforts to possible that over 4000 people were demanding 'to speak with the build links to other parts of society including registered to the hall's address. administration', as if exposing the the wider community living around the park, Actually the kaihou kaikan functions contradictions of the lying and children and the disabled. as a mail and coordination center for rampaging administration that had those living on the streets and allows already evicted so many like them The city hall had been coming around since them to function like human beings, would stop anything. This sort of around November (06) telling get mail and receive work since you political innocence is dangerous people to get out of their tents. This action need an address to do that, and of and only instills illusions. The city wasn't unforseen by the tent inhabitants course, to collect welfare and workers are men employed to since the national games were coming to social services. The ward office had destroy the autonomy of these workers Nagai stadium in 2007. However, the level of long known that the kaihou kaikan had and unemployed, who were brought to events around the eviction was a bit of a been a registrar for those without a Osaka by the economy, but have learned shock. The city entered into an offensive fixed address and thus the raid was to refuse the traditional worker and repressive strategy that centered on arresting blatantly political, meant to crush the welfare accommodations (which are leaders of the squatter movement, holding basic self-defense institutions of characterized by high daily rent).

18 Nagai's struggle against eviction was trying to rush in were kicking around real 'militant' and then doing the launched thus with a stubborn adherence barricades down, smashing them etc. typical raised fist, denunciation thing. to negotiation, despite everyone's obvious This peripheral action kept a good Wow, what a disappointing end. pessimism that the inhabitants could not amount of the security forces stop the inevitable. distracted from their main task (even I can't really address the impact of Nagai in though they numbered around 500). such a short report, but needless to say it Tent inhabitants and their supporters People were periodically carried out is huge. What is also significant is that the managed despite this to organize some from the sit-in who had become entire strategy behind resisting the eviction very creative resistance to the eviction, and 'unruly' within the enclosure. The was media-oriented and that, after viewing a model that could serve in future videos so far sent around incidentally much of the media afterward although the evictions. On January 21st, a smaller do not convey even the slightest coverage is not BAD per se, the shibai version of the yearly Nagai festival was sense of the scope of the event, (play) is not mentioned anywhere and organized. Bands played, heaps of art and which hundreds of people were neither is the resistance put up portrayed beautiful banners prepared. Food was watching with a massive media in the least. These efforts were whited out. dished out, everyone got drunk. presence. Discussions were held and speeches were What are the lessons? That 'using the made. As the security forces got closer, the media' is almost always futile. That no Nagai nojukusha launched into their matter how beautiful and important the A beautiful day that encapsulated most 'oshibai', a hilarious play, whose plot festival-esque resistance at Nagai park, everything that made the Nagai community is um...hard to describe but basically that creating a false impression of the powerful rock that it had been for is about a bunch of adventurers who resistance for the wider population (and almost ten years. Community support, encounter each other and interact. At the wider class), and indeed producing a horizontal ties, links with disabled one point the main female lead threw spectacle in which some people are stage communities, friendships with children, a a bunch of rubber balls and paper managers, retards resistance because it food-producing garden in southern Osaka clips at all the guards, which bounced channels it into sound bytes, gives it a etc. These things made Nagai one of the off their helmets. Amidst all the representative and manages to most important semi-autonomous locations conflict and chaos, watching the play encapsulate what is a multi-faceted, in the city. I was similarly optimistic that was truly surreal. widespread NON-SPECIFIC struggle into the 'festival' nature of the resistance and a 'social problem'. No matter what was its humorous, ironic potential could It was like some mad sanity in a accomplished at Nagai, the ongoing potentially communicate the nojukusha situation where people were eating evictions in central Osaka over the past struggle in a different way from the park each other. year have robbed over 200 people of their evicted last year, which for all of its flaws, improvised homes, some of whom now live was until the end a committed defense of At precisely 11:40 the guardsmen on the street. The others are back in the the tents. rushed the sit-in and began pulling exploitative 'worker hotel' nightmare. In everyone up at once. The scene was this sense, the defeat at Nagai could have Before the day of the eviction we had very chaotic and I was unable to see been worse, but definitely demands a re- organized recording crews to capture all everything that was happening, but assessment of the isolation of the angles of the park under attack, including according to a comrade of mine nojukusha (squatters) and the tendencies tents located far away from the target zone afterward, many of the people which demand attention by the media and (which had no legal obligation to leave, but performing the sit-in then GOT UP the state. were feared to come under attack on the ON THEIR OWN and began exiting same day). We also posted people at the zone with locked arms, in other parks around the city to counter/record the words abandoning the defense of the destructive path of the administration, site. which if you remember, unexpectedly struck in four parks at once during the Afterwards this was justified with the eviction last year (Osaka-jo, Utsubo, trop that 'no one was arrested'. Well, Ogimachi and Nishinari). if we hadn't put up any resistance at all, no one would have been arrested The day of the eviction came and I was either right? This couldn't have been posted at the park nearest to my heart. everyone because many people were We woke up at 5 a.m. in the cold winter putting up a real fight against removal, park to the sound of recyclers stacking but it shocked me to hear how much cardboard and dogs pitter-pattering the commitment to intransigence was across the cement. We held a lookout really just a commitment to spectacle. until 7:30 when one of us left to go to Just as problematic, as people began Nagai. Myself and my other comrade to be ejected from the eviction area stayed until about 10 when it was obvious many of us tried to fight back against that the administration was not coming the displacement and being pushed (and this was essential since two out, only to be basically ORDERED comrades from Nagai had moved by the kamagasaki patrol to 'fall back into tents in that park, and their tents were fall back'. Later we understood that vulnerable). When I made it down to their reasoning at that point was that if Nagai, the resisters (approx. 150) had people continued to fight, the police gathered around the main tent/stage would not allow us to get home. A and were surrounded by security guards, few people were not satisfied with police and city hall officials, although there this and kept fighting only to be was an ongoing rush of these employees corralled into an absurd 'scrum' in from one side to the other as people tried which everyone started dancing to storm in to join the defenders. Those

19 To the Comrades of the Informal Anarchist Federation (F.A.I.) FromFrom GabrielGabriel PomboPombo dada SilvaSilva This letter was written in response to a "degree of individual conscience", plus "specialists"... meeting of F.A.I Groups which took place of the oppressed who would act the in December 2006. same. With this I mean that all those Finally I mean that all projects of these that are not oppressed, do not identify characteristics require time for their development “Dear reunited comrades of "Paperopoli" in with my answer to answer force with and evolution (without mentioning their social the house of "Paperino" : your letters arrived force. This has always been the way understanding)... to me, (from the Grabada assembly) which I and there is not an idea or movement read with extreme attention for I am that is going to change anything without And of course I am in favor of the objective value interested in the content of your reflections, understanding this. (and not for fetishism) for the reach of this and in addition I get along with and I identify project to use the acronym of the F.A.I.... And I so much with the project of the F.A.I. And I am not a theoretician companions, want to finish these considerations (that I always (obvious informal) like with all and each one but one of the oppressed, enamored consider unnecessary) with wise words of the of the actions that you have carried out. with the freedom (and liberty) that infects comrade Errico Malatesta : the oppressed with the passion for a The reason for writing these letters is not of worthy life... "Amongst the anarchists there are the course "advice" of some type, for this world revolutionaries whom think it necessary to use is full of "advisors", "theoreticians" and And in 22 years and six (seven) months force, to bring down the violence that maintains "celebrities" of all color and condition... that I have been jailed (and for that the present order, to create the atmosphere in No, I only want to send from this camp of reason tortured until unimaginable limits which the free evolution of individuals and the extermination words of subversive by "oppressed" "others"). I have said collective is possible; and then there are tenderness, revolutionary spirit and rebellious that to be oppressed in fact does not educationists that think that it is only possible to complicity; words as much from my bring even a radical desire to finish yet arrive at the social transformation after educating companion Jose as my own... And of what oppresses us... the people by means of propaganda. They exist stepping to comment on some of the things in favor of nonviolence, or the passive on which you have reflected and debated in One needs to have "pride", dignity, resistance, that avoids the violence although it is the assembly... conscience, hatred and intelligence to for rejecting it. Well they are divided as well, with wish to face the enemy and all the regards to this nature, and the degree of Indeed the attacks serve to demonstrate the consequences... violence. In addition, there is discord with respect vulnerability not only of the State but also of to the attitude of the anarchists as opposed to the idea of the State that has been I ignore that thing which is "the social the union movement, and also on their own composed by symbols, things and people, thing" and doubt that the opinions of organizations, with permanent or occasional for they are the mediators and reformers of these "oppressed" "vague beings" like, differences between the subversive anarchists one and the other. "movements", "subjects" are going to and other parties. Exactly these and other similar influence in some way my ideas and questions are those that requires that we try to On the criticism that some comrades have actions. I was asked if also they are be understood; or if, according to the spilled on to you in relation to the possibility going to “accuse” me of thinking and understanding it is not possible, it is necessary to "of hurting" or "of killing", "innocent acting in a "vanguard" form since my learn tolerance, to work together when one people*" (for example the mailman or hatred of class is not "reproducible" by agrees, and when not, to leave it alone without secretary). I think that it is a question of the "the oppressed" others... preventing another. Because, in truth, if all the technical means of the explosive package, factors are taken into account, nobody always is rather than the methodology (armed attack). Considerations aside, I want to declare right... " Errico Malatesta I suppose that the one that must decide, that your project of informal and must be each group, based on what it has insurrectionary organization has A Warm embrace for your comrades! decided to carry out... It is undoubtable that demonstrated clearly: For the extension of the Revolt, if it is decided to attack a servant of the state For Anarchy! one must study the movements, customs A) That it has grown at least in quantity and places that the target frequents to save and not only in the Italian Peninsula Viva la F.A.I.! “ in this way disagreeable surprises. (referring to the adhesion of new groups to the F.A.Informal), then it is possible Aachen, Germany, 28.01.07. Once being in possession of all the to be seen clearly in the actions of other information only then can the attack be groups that the essential of the proposal Gabriel Pombo da Silva valued. All the valuations (Objective- (the diffused attack, the informal Krefelder Str. 251 subjective-moral-etc) are unique and the organization, etc) has been extended 52070 Aachen exclusive work of those decided companions and assimilated by other companions as Germany who will carry out the action (Not in vain if their own project, even though they have someday they fall into the hands of the not made use of the acronym F.A.I.; Gabriel is an anarchist from Spain who escaped oppressors, for they will be themselves and from prison and was caught on the Belgian- only they who will undergo the weight of the B) That it has demonstrated that the German border, with fellow anarchist escapee laws and the consequences of their acts). attack is possible and reproducible by all Jose Fernandez Delgado, Belgian anarchist Bart those that know that things have de Geeter and Begona, his sister. Personally, in the fruit of my experiences, I become very bad, and are tired of More info: www.escapeintorebellion.info am convinced that the fact to identify (or not) hoping and have decided to now shift with the armed actions is a question of the today to the offensive, not delegating its The F.A.I. are a decentralised network of management to "elites" and anarchist groups which practice anarchist direct * On "innocent or guilty" there deserves to be written a volume for the simple-minded... action & propaganda. 20 Letter from GiannisGiannis DimitrakisDimitrakis

driver is a faceless and vague state. The state and capital in order to continue The path the wagon follows is of existing manufacture modern-day helots course not strewn with rose petals and who can easily be compared to the flowers but with blood and human Spartan ones. A system which at the alter bodies. With individuals or groups of of profit sacrifices human lives inconsider- On the afternoon of 16/1/06 an people that wanted to either resist and ably and with audacity. As I've already armed robbery took place at the change its frantic course or to stand as mentioned one of the main partners in this national bank of Greece in the centre an obstacle in front of it. The list of crime are banks which are nothing less of Athens. After an exchange of fire those is long: insubordinates, rebels, than legitimate loan-sharks and are partly with 2 cops from a special unit, one leftists, anti-authoritarians and anar- to blame for the plundering that's taking of the participators Giannis Dimitrakis, chists fill many bloody pages in this place at the expense of peoples' work. 28, was seriously injured when shot journey's storybook. Somewhere in by the cops 3 times at several parts between the last two groups is where I Taking all the above into consideration we can understand Maki in Brecht's ... When of his body. The other 4 participators place myself. he asks 'what is a bank robbery compared managed to get away from the scene So, to the degree of consciousness to the establishment of a bank?' But also with about 50,000 euro with one of that my world-view and perception taking me into consideration who wanting them being slightly injured too. offers me, what I can easily discern is to resist on a personal level- as on a mass Giannis, who openly admitted that he that present-day society relies only on level all that know me personally know that is an anarchist, stayed in different violence, oppression and exploitation. I have participated as much as I could - to hospitals for a few months till he A society which aims at the loss of my future yoke, to determine myself the recovered, then he was sent to human dignity in every way, by all conditions and quality of my life, to put in Korydallos prison of Athens. In means. This is something that is to practice my refusal to 'work' and also to play the role of yet another productive unit, another parody of the Greek justice experienced and received by each and every one of us in their everyday life, of yet another wheel in the wagon, wanting system Giannis was charged with 7 either by being forced to deal with to attack the monstrosity that is called a robberies! Also he was charged with state institutions either at our work- bank (however at the same time having no numerous counts of attempted place and from those who manage and illusions that I'll inflict any major blows to murder, topped with the anti-terror profit from our work. Employment, this economic institution), choosing to mark law! Its not the first time that a fixed work: words whose true meaning is a course of dignity in my life I decided to charge is given towards anarchists in wage slavery, enslavement. Work and rob a bank. An act which I consider, Greece. This is the letter he sent its surplus-value are the pillars of amongst many others, as revolutionary and from prison on the 23rd of June today's economic system while the which claims deservingly its own place as such. where he explains a lot about what individuals that carry it through and the circumstances under which this takes happened in the meantime and his place confirms that people are treated In all honesty I must admit that the money personal position on the robbery. as expendable goods, as modern I was going to acquire through the robbery slaves. We see workers that are was going to have me as the end- rotting away from illnesses that are recipient. At the same time, however, as Comrades, due to their long-term exposure to an anarchist and as a person who wishes hazardous substances, that die either to show their solidarity through deeds I'd This letter is my first attempt to by fall or by explosion in the capitalist be one of the first to actively and with joy communicate and comment on the events temples they are building, losing their help in contributing to monetary needs, that took place and I experienced due to urge, their liveliness, their spontaneity which might come up in this scene which I my participation in the bank robbery of the all that characterizes a would-be free belong. Finally, what I'd like to point out National Bank of Greece that took place in person. Working exhausting hours and here is that all which I have mentioned up the centre of Athens on January 16th. employed in two or three jobs simulta- to now does not in any way mean that I Before I go on to enlarge upon the actual neously just for a few crumbs. When support a notion that whoever is an events, I'd like to say a few things in to cover their most basic needs a anarchist should be a bank robber or that regards to my motives that lay behind my person is obliged to mortgage to those whoever works is enslaved. choice in taking such action and what it cold-hearted oppressors that are means to me. otherwise known as banks and under Going on now to recount the chain of the burden of this financial responsibil- events that took place, I take as a starting For me, present-day society is a wagon ity start showing signs of subservience point the scene where I'm lying on the following a pre-defined course that leads and submission whereas in the case ground seriously injured by the cops' fire straight towards its complete dehumaniza- that they cannot in the end cope and and I have to let myself be taken into the tion. The role of its passengers, its are led to bankruptcy and in the end states' 'warm' embrace. The welcoming is wheels and its horses- in other words of commit suicide or are publicly ridiculed to, say the least, impressive as an image, its driving force- is played out by our- by the mass media as one more as most people saw, but also exemplary selves, the people. The wagon's driver human wreckage, leads us to one towards anyone who is considering acting has the cruel face of capitalism and its co- conclusion. in a similar way: A pack of hunters in blue

21 uniforms and me in the role of the injured authorities, either in regards to my two cops were permanently stationed in front game being surrounded and receiving guarding or my transport and exit from of the open door of the room while one 'friendly' kicks- which later I found out the ICU. character kept trooping in and out every half where part of the framework to disarm me- hour to check up on things, another 5-6 and comments like 'we fucked you' or On the third or fourth day of my cops were in the waiting room and an 'you're not such a big shot now, you hospital treatment I was informed that unknown number of individuals in the fucker?!' amongst other brave words. prosecutor Diotis was coming to see corridor outside. Finally, being handcuffed from behind me later that afternoon. I must confess despite the fact that I couldn't move or that to start with I wasn't sure whether The result of all this was for me not to able breathe having received bullets in my lungs, in my condition I would be up to facing to sleep for 3-4 days and to feel like a liver and elbow completes the picture. I refer him. The head of the ICU, however, monkey in the zoo as every jumped-up cop to these events without the slightest trace of assured me that he would be by my came in looking at me up and down and bitterness, complaining or disappointment, side for the duration of the interroga- discussing me on his mobile phone or with as I didn't expect any better treatment from tion and made it known to me that due his collegues. I was at the end of my tether my enemies in the case that I did fall into to my condition I had a right to stop and so made a complaint to the head of their hands. In any case, a similar attitude the process at whatever moment, security about it all who replied that I was a has been displayed to less 'dangerous' something that I was unaware of. So prisoner now and that they'll be the ones to villains and as a mere example I' d like to when Diotis arrived escorted by a judge how I should be guarded and that remind you of images such as the arrest of security police chief and another they're protecting me from myself meaning, protesters and immigrants or the pogroms at person whose official role I can't if you can believe, that they were watching gypsy camps just to name a few. I do refer remember, but was probably the over me so I didn't commit suicide. Other to these events, however, as, in a tragic interrogator, and as soon as each of amazing scenes that took place included and insane way, these are the people who them had spoken to me to me for a me, still bed-ridden, relieving myself in front at my trial will come forward as the ones couple of minutes I signaled to my of them while they watched undisturbed, or who defend and honor human life and doctor that I wanted them to leave. On me being handcuffed to the bed inside the dignity, while I'll have the role of the his way out Diotis told me that in any ICU, again with the excuse of preventing me immoral, hardened, violent and heartless case they were going to find who else from committing suicide and other such criminal. was with me and that to talk now incidents. Like the attempt to kidnap me would just make it easier for me. Of from the Eye Clinic and to transport me to For the time that I was kept at Athens course his words fell on deaf ears. the hospital at Korydallos prisons while I still General Hospital I literally experienced the The second time he came I was given had stitches in from the surgical incisions, violation of every human right as an arrestee a chance to understand who Diotis falsely claiming that the doctors had given and later as a prisoner. There were early really is when in a lively exchange of their permission and which in the end was, signs regarding how I was going to be words with the head of the ICU a very for the time being, avoided due to my treated when at my parents first visit to see strange phrase slipped his mouth. parents notifying the doctors. me at the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). While Having finished his monologue and there are very strict rules about the number having delivered me the arrest warrant I believe the sole purpose of all this was to of visitors- even in the case of relatives- an and the list of accusations I was facing humiliate me, to make me lose all sense of armed to the teeth police officer barges in he asks me to sign. My doctor self-respect and to generally make me and places himself in a corner which as a immediately intervenes and explains to realize the fact that I was a captive in their consequence destroyed any concept of at him that I am incapable of doing such hands and I no longer had any rights. These least sharing a private moment with my a thing at the moment and asks him to situations drove me to think of the hospital family, as from the drug-treatment I was leave as my strength was deserting and prisons at Korydallos as a haven of receiving I couldn't even open my mouth, me. Then Diotis, to both our surprise, mental tranquility. much less hold a conversation. Following answers: ' Of course I respect the this incident and at an unsuspected time, boy's condition and I don't intend to In the mean time, while I was waiting to be while in a hazy condition from the heavy give him a hard time, because if I did I transferred to Korydallos prisons, we all saw drug treatment I was undertaking due to the could just pull on his tubes a little and an orchestrated attempt by the prosecuting pains I had from my wounds and swimming put his pressure up to 50'. I realized authorities to manufacture culprits with their in a sea of tubes that were coming out of at that moment what would have only indication being that they belonged to my body, I realized that a guard was now happened in that room if the doctors my friendly environment or to the anarchist permanently positioned inside the room and weren't people with willpower and scene. I am now sure that the taking in of right next to me. This situation really irritated values but simply pawns. I would people to be interrogated, the making public me and didn't allow me to rest and I made it have, no doubt, discovered the of names and the issuing of arrest warrants known to him. Strangely enough he then left 'famous' interrogation methods that were triggered by the police finding some of the room and instead stood right in front of prosecutor Diotis has used in the past. my personal photos, calls to and from my it. Of course when the doctors and the head mobile or whatever document proved I had a of the ICU came to examine me I reported After this incident the conditions of my friendly relationship with these individuals. I this incident and truly astounded and irritated detention really worsened. Two armed want to express my solidarity to all of them. by the event they got rid of the cop, guards were permanently placed inside wondering who had let him in. the ICU and pressures were put on the According to the police and journalist head of the department for me to be scenarios we form an, unknown at least to Here, a big thank you needs to be given admitted out earlier, which was me, 'gang in black' which consists of 10-15 from my behalf to all those people, from the achieved. I was then transferred to an individuals, anti-authoritarians and anarchists doctors to the nurses, who paid me attention especially laid out room in the Eye (which leaves open an option of the and who irrelevant of their own political Clinic with the excuse that they would authorities involving other individuals) and beliefs took care of me as best as they be able to guard me more efficiently. this gang has committed another 6 bank could. Some of these people also resisted In this new space in which I was robberies, goes on holidays in expensive as much as they could to the different placed I was sleeping with two resorts, has close ties to Passaris and so pressures put on them by the prosecuting undercover cops by my side. Another

22 under the violence of the State and its wage-earners, they must have no mercy with its enemies. The fight to recover freedom and dignity does not know borders nor has limits.

One does what one must do.

And for this (and for many more things) I am glad for the 28 rebels of Dendermonde who knew to conquer their liberties with honor and anger... In August 2006, 28 prisoners were able to escape from the and my solidarity with the rebels in prison of Dendermonde (in the northwest of Belgium). 2 guys Teixeiro and A Lama that they have broke out of their cell, put the 3 guards in a separate room (that demonstrated once again that dignity they locked of course), took their keys and opened all the cells refuses to be fenced before the fascist tortures. of the wing! Only 26 decided to follow them, some prisoners even went to liberate the guards... 15 lucky ones are still on the They say that one of the jailers died of run. Gabriel Pombo da Silva, an imprisoned anarchist in a heart attack... It should happen more Germany, had this to say about the incident: often to those screws who "are excited" from having beaten the pris- oners... “The person who fights back can the rebellious individuals, explode never be a ‘prisoner’, and those from Dendermonde to Teixeiro... No, I am not worried at all about the ‘prisoners’ who fight stop being The free spirits rebel themselves; death of a jailer.. if there are more, I slaves... they want freedom and some- times they get it! am glad. This means that a word does not When you have lost so many friends as summarize everything that we Qué viva la libertad compañeros!! I within a jail and have seen it with are, as individuals... In other occasions the rebellion your own eyes the smiles or mocking commentaries of these people (that Some authorities (Media - does not persecute to win are nourished on the human suffering), Judiciary- Police force, etc.) think freedom but to call to attention; when they have offered a suicide cord that they can replace REASON the prisoners want dignity, want to a friend or companion then yours... with FORCE... respect. The forms that the revolt adopts are the ones for that you do not have a place to feel pain for the death of a jailer. They think that having jails - reason are less absurd consider- weapons - laws of all type and ing the "means". And my last desire with these words is condition will make us follow the to show support to my comrades that game so that they can gag, What prisoner can "kidnap" a were present on the 2 of July demon- torture, explode, ignore or assas- "kidnapper” - a jailer? Where is stration in Brussels. Solidarity with the sinate us... the objection? What about in the course of a revolt and it is possi- prisoners in struggle! ble there is a death? Death forms But they are mistaken and the Gabriel Pombo da Silva revolts of the excluded ones, of part of life! Those who are put

solidarity, by whatever means, even on. As far as the money that had been of methods will the state use in the though the nature of my case is, I gathered by various comrades to cover case of the arrest or voluntary coming believe, very difficult. needs of the anarchist scene and which I forward of the three comrades in order kept in a bank deposit box, it was labeled as to get a confession out of them and to In struggle, the product of robberies. send them to trial but also how will a 'fair trial' be secured for whoever goes As an outcome of all the above, I ended up through with this procedure? defending myself in front of the interrogator Giannis Dimitrakis for 7 bank robberies, for attempted homicide Finally I have one thing to say to all and for money laundering plus being put those who are planning our physical, Korydallos Prison, under the anti-terrorist law. ethical and political annihilation, once Greece. and for all: no matter what dirty and That the state and its underdogs have as a unethical means they use, no matter standard tactic for years now to tarnish how much they hunt us down and peoples' reputation, to inflate briefs, to imprison us they will never crush us manufacture culprits, to organize trials that and tame us. Because those who are are judicial parodies and generally in all kinds just are those who revolt not those of ways to demonstrate their hate and who snitch and bow their heads down. vengefulness towards whoever resists is well known. One question however forms when I also want to say a big thank you to taking into serious consideration all the all those who have chosen, chose or above. What kind of treatment and what kind will chose to give me their support and

23 PPPrison Society, Reformism and Insurrection

Damaged relationships are dead-end jobs in a pointless society of self- endemic because deceit and exploitation is the cause of the confinement permanently problem, and will never be a solution. damages the individual. Society is open-air technocratic detention Everywhere social centre, maintained by violence, coercion, cohesion is disintegrating. dispersal and exploitation. Without making a One half of the population clear break with the entire present way of drugs themselves with doing things, the only way that remains is ignorance, random cradle-to-grave prison for all of us. violence and consumerism, all because the total The repression of assembly, of expression alienation and complete and movement, is nothing short of the will to loss of meaning could not dominate all popular sentiment of dissent, to be so evident. Everyone is crush it out in spirit, through fear, condemned to a life of harassment, and imprisonment. The According to Privacy International, a civil competing for just enough to get by environmental and social reformists have liberties monitor, the United Kingdom is an on; dead-end lives in a corrupt society totally failed in their efforts to prevent the ‘Endemic Surveillance State’. In terms of whose future looks bleak. destruction of the biosphere and the creation how much time, money and energy, of a murderous neo-liberalist economy. government and business spend on spying When the UK media started to cover There has been a failure by the leftist on their population; we are the most urban gang shootings on housing ideologues, and reformist organisations to observed nation in the world. Britain is a estates in January 2007(1), it was in control or mediate the alienation and rage, tightly controlled society, but it is evident response to youths being shot in drug but they continue to propagate widespread to us that without substantial resistance, related feuds. None of this is new, confusion over the extent that technology technologies of social control will extend and we know it has been getting and consumerism dominates our lives. across the whole of the planet, worse. No-one is denying this, nor Without widespread revolt and sabotage spearheaded by various corporate and how bad things have become in our leading to the complete overthrow of the State interests. Patricio Pallares Bayona, communities, nor the pain of losing a entire present order of society and industry, an anarchist comrade who spent 20 years brother, sister, parent or child, but capitalism will destroy the Biosphere; it in jail in Catalonia was stunned when he something is really missing from how cannot resolve its contradictions. It will came to London. Recently released from the State wants to remove all context attempt to adapt to the climate chaos by prison, he said 'in all this time things have from these senseless killings over passing laws that suppress free movement of changed, now they build prisons on the money and territory. This isn't just in the population. 'Climate Change' will outside as well'. some isolated ghetto; this is in the become the new reason for compliance. suburbs, everywhere. But the question Industry, militarism and science continue to The new developments in technologies of is of what is it going to take for the loot, manipulate and exploit every valuable social control are being placed everywhere weapons to be turned against the resource until it is gone. that they can be useful in manipulating State and all those who exploit us, not and controlling people. So-called against each other. There is nothing Every time the media and politicians throw a ‘intelligent’ CCTV surveillance networks for anyone in these estates. For all the lie to the public the reformists and liberals which recognise faces and other talk of the 'community building' that take it up. They tell us our direct action is biometrics, detect voice stress levels and needs to done, getting exploited in hooliganism, insanity, extremism, terror, that ‘unusual’ behaviour; MMW Cameras, it harms the ‘dialogue’ with power, that it ‘x-ray’ type devices which visually strip brings repression, that it is against the a person to the skin; automatic vehicle 'workers' interests, that now is not the tracking systems. The British time to act. Political repression exists right Government aims for all movements of now against anyone who questions people and vehicles to be tracked and hierarchy. If we act against the prisons, databased in the next decade. Access police and capitalist system we can expect to social services, transport network, immediate clampdowns. The use of and consumer services such as retail, harassment, detainment, torture and banking, Internet & telecommunications murder exists - what deceitful things subject to intensive monitoring and words become when subservience to profiling. These control technologies power is concealed. It is enough that we have enveloped the UK, and they will act at all in the face of this production-line unfold to totally underpin and maintain genocide. We merely move to what our the brutal order of the globalised hearts tell us, which is enough to be modern society. These partially condemned as a prisoner, one of those completed prison-states have excluded from the lie of 'civility', and completely bypassed the scope and forced to witness its brutal contradiction: reach of most peoples' understanding isolation, torture and death. and capabilities for intervention. All this is becoming entrenched in society Technological developments will continue seemingly without neither question nor to produce finely tuned prison societies rebellion. So much so that the people where our entire social relationships are themselves seem paralysed and unable subject to profiling by the information to prevent the all-encompassing economy and authoritarian control. It is penetration of control into their daily imperative that we act immediately against lives. all forms of exploitation and hierarchy, and 24 generalise the social war on all fronts. There is a need to act immediately against the architects of this prison society, we want more than this in our life times, and in the face of intrusive surveillance and total social control, we will organise and resist. Avoiding payment, the boss, the police, the social contract, and the prisons - it’s clear that this is the beginning. However, without destroying the free market, capitalism will cause an imminent ecological collapse: snowballing species extinction, climate chaos and resource exhaustion is here to stay, and is going to get a lot worse. Intervention in environmental and social struggles, against the tendencies of nationalism and statism is critical.

Our perspective has absolutely nothing to do with reformist or representational politics. provocative and uncontrollable, and radically transform the situation When anarchists / anti-capitalists participate in beyond recognition. We need to think social democratic activism for reform without accompanied by a wider spread of information and activities dedicated to about what it would take to create retaining their revolutionary militancy, it dilutes situations of absolute social breakdown our effectiveness, and our movements become free exchange, autonomy and liberation. and auto-organisation, to create penetrated with ineffective ideas and methods. situations where no-one is able to It creates a theatre of easily policed charades In anticipation of a total breakdown of control the scenario, not the political on the street, and weakens our long-term leaders, the police, military, not goals of autonomy, free exchange and society and industrialism through economic collapse and climate anyone, least of all ourselves, the liberation. Our energy and participation is used ‘political militants’. We need to by social managers, to lend credibility to their meltdown, it is vital to radically self- organise, and attack the state and the accelerate this process of rebellion and goals, the recuperative power of this process recognise our long-term aims, and is the absolute negation of grass-roots corporations now, increasing pressure. The media parade has to stop, and think about the type of disorder that is organisation and practice, and leads to the necessary to get there. It is in these further ghettoising of anti-capitalist, anti-state our carnival of dreams has to begin. Capitalism is a social relationship and moments that the economic market ideas. If we participate in trying to convince and hierarchy is fragile, when all things ourselves and an alienated public that anyone cannot be fought through lobbying, or parliamentary means; it must be fought are in motion, but the system will make any difference to ecological collapse frequently gains from chaotic and social exploitation with any symbolic, in the streets. Looting supermarkets and chain stores, trashing symbolic situations, lots of commodities are representational appeal to power and finance, destroyed and are remade. Media the more time we will have to wait before any targets such as corporate businesses, banks, police stations, embassies etc. stereotypes are employed in real change happens. This is not to say that propaganda to bend the minds of the we should retreat from areas of conflict we is a key part of our presence on the streets. But it is necessary to widen population, and the time passes have spent time and energy fighting for, only according to the clock. That is, as long that our actions become more insightful, the frame of our activity to encompass a total attack on the infrastructure and as these events remain within the capabilities of production of parameters of recuperation. Successful the modern society. It is direct action is propaganda, when certainly not enough to done by an individual or on mass. cause economic sabotage Face-to-face organisation on the basis 2-3 times a year in of affinity, networked informally within orchestrated theatres of mass struggle, is a form of police management and organisation that governments have a training. As long as we difficult task policing. Our subversive carry out low-level rioting project of insurrection and informality is and minor acts of sabotage spreading, igniting anti-systemic fires we remain marginalised everywhere, burning up the chains of and open to recuperation our imagination. into our given role as predictable dissent within Revolutionary direct action cannot be the spectacle. To be seen recuperated, that is why it must be by the base population as repressed; it communicates action & a credible force able to theory to all. Aiming to provoke an alter reality in a profound, incredible rupture, which could open permanent way. There is a the realms of the impossible, is a need for a greater visibility reality. of our intention and capability to be a real active threat to the very order of State & Capital. (1) - Three 15 year-old boys were shot to death over gang related A threat so large as to disputes in the space of a week, in wreck the fabric of society London and Manchester, UK.

25 Letter from SilviaSilviaSilvia GuerinGuerinGuerin

Silvia Guerini was arrested as compare men in jail to animals in from here, together with people part of the raids to shutdown cages. For me it is absurd to who are interested in it. And I'll try the eco-anarchist paper 'Terra think that there are living things to contribute to the campaigns for Selvaggia', produced by the that can be put in cages...and see animal freedom, and I'll keep group 'Il Silvestre'. She is how crazy they become, or sick, editing my bulletin "Abortion". accused of various acts of and see in their eyes that they sabotage, attempting to can feel and understand freedom Biotechnologies and overthrow the State, and too...and maybe their feeling of nanotechnologies represent the last subversive association for the freedom is more strong than steps of the system to get an even intent of terrorism. ours, since ours has been more totalitarian power, from rationalised, while theirs is still an nature, animals and men being instinct. enslaved by other men, now the “To my comrades system wants to modify, project The most important thing for me and create new living organisms, I'm ok; in the way it is possible to now is to see that fights keep opening new terrifying views to the feel ok in jail. going outside. The biggest enslavement of nature to men. solidarity is to keep on fighting Jail is a passage that soon or later even if repression exists. They New sectors are investing money people have to cross, when it's think of reducing us to silence, and resources in these technolo- been decided to live life following a one by one, with these big gies, that are able to hit where the path of revolutionary struggle. investigations with a common stroke can be more harmful and aim, but they won't win, till the painful, and the system obviously Since we are men and women who day someone outside keeps cannot lose...it is then necessary, have been civilised, we can get fighting. urgent and important to start used to living in jail, walking in fighting against a system that circles, or up and down, like Do not use the few strengths you produces living things. animals in circus....in my opinion have to organise talks or demon- then it is good not to get used to stration for me, but keep working Never a slave to this society of this kind of life, and I enjoy all the on your own projects, and fights death and slavery, reactions I get from my body, that the system wants to stop. which does not want to get used to A big hug to all the comrades in jail, jail: head and stomach aches, cuts With the last number of "Terra or in other prisons.” in the mouth... Selvaggia" we wanted to present the new campaign against Silvia Guerini It means I'm still alive, and not a biotechnology and the world that Carcere "La Dozza" slave to this place. In my room in produces it. Please make this Via Del Gomito 2 prison there is a window, from campaign effective and spread it 40127 Bologna which I can see the blue sky around, while I'll try to widen it Italy through a mesh...

The window is always open, I could not live without feeling fresh air on my face.

A human in jail can realise more intensely how animals feel, in cages. The difference is that the animal is used to become a lab animal, a cloth, and food for human beings. This is a difference and a meeting point at the same time, when men and animals are used at the same time as means and tools to make the system work. I'm saying this because the first sensations I felt here in jail were like being in a cage. I thought of animals in labs, in breeding farms...

Maybe people can find it absurd to

26 DISCUSSING THE PRISON STRUGGLE

the Catalunyan State is obsessed with cracking down on the anarchist move- ment.

The treatment we recieved was as 'political prisoners', high security, lots of police to escort us, when we arrived in prison they tried to isolate us. So initially we were taken to the Modelo prison in the centre of Barcelona, intially for a few days they put us in the same cell together, but then the penentiary instition has a policy that high risk prisoners do not remain in a same cell.

So from there they dispersed us into various prisons in Catalunya. So the treatment we recieved is a special treatment for political prisoners, they listen In October 2006, a number of anar- Ruben : to our communications and seperate us in chists from Spain and Italy came to the In February this year, we the prison, isolated. UK, and gave a few talks about prison have been involved in one of the latest abolition and the fight against the State. blows from the State to the solidarity So we tried to place an appeal and they Amongst the anarchists were Patricio, a groups, brought on by the police of didn't accept it, even though legally, we long-term prisoner from Catalunya, and Barcelona, and the Judge of court 13. could have had liberty with charges (bail), Ruben & Ignasi, two young men who This is not an isolated event, it is part but the justification of the State was that were charged with two attacks, one of the wider attempt by the Spanish we would re-offend, our actions would be against a Sabadell bank, and one State to stop the solidarity movement repeated. We would do the same again, against C.I.R.E, a public-private that was expanding in the area of we were unrepentant. institution which manages prison labour. Barcelona and Catalunya. Part of this discussion was recorded by After a few months, first Ignasi gets them, and is presented here >> So initially we have been accused of released under caution, bail, and after 5 arson in a bank, arson of C.I.R.E, an months I (Ruben) am released on bail. Translator: institution partly private-public, they make prisoners work and produce, and The idea of this talk is on the work in rehabilitation, reincercion. Ignasi : one hand to inform you on various So this repressive crackdown situations in Spain, and especially around We were both picked up (by police), wasn't so much the Catalan State itself, Barcelona, and to give an outlook on one at work, one in the house, early but also this new police force/system what's happening in another country with morning, followed by a full search so which has been enforced in Catalunya, prisoner solidarity groups and the anti- the police could find evidence where (the Mossos d'Esquadra) and this was prison struggle. This talk is going to focus they wanted. After this they took us to their first operation, and it seems the way on how people have organised outside the police station at Zona Franca (An they operate is very much linked with prisons, and how organisation happened industrial zone out of the city). So Europol. In a matter of fact the last annual inside prisons. after this we were taken by the secret report of Europol, in the section called police who interrogated us. The 'anarchist terrorism', which is what they So, we're firstly going to explain the interrogation was about trying to call it on the report, half of it is about various situations of repression and the understand the links we could have to Barcelona, maybe because of the links State trying to crack down on the other groups, especially in Italy. They they have. After having said this, we must solidarity movement outside prison. And were trying to link us to other prisoner say that this is simply, not an isolated act explain what has happened to various support groups. So they begin to take of repression, but part of a process of groups that did act with solidarity and us from one police station to another, repression, as a crackdown of the bring an anti-prison discourse, and how keeping us incommunicado, trying to movement began several years ago. the State has cracked down on an anti- puzzle people who wanted to support prison movement that developed between us, our famillies. So after 3 days of We can say that the repression against the prisoners themselves with the being moved from one prison to the anarchist groups related to the prison experience of the 'Presos en Lucha' next, we were taken before a judge. struggle, and the crackdown on solidarity (Prisoners in Struggle) commitee. This Initially the prosecutor asked for an can be seen as starting around 1998, talk is to inspire and expand international unconditional prison sentence without when a movement of prisoners 'Presos en solidarity , I hope that a discussion comes communication, but we recieved Lucha', began to point out several out of this, because we gave a talk unconditional with communication. requests to groups outside. This move- yesterday, and various ideas came out, ment begins inside the prisons when a and the distinction in what is solidarity I'm explaining this because it is a group of anarchist prisoners and a group and how we can actually do solidarity, curious decision that the Catalunya of social prisoners make a demand to without assisting, that sees solidarity as state, didn't have any concrete proof, groups outside, that they want to begin a something active that has to move on. but with the small proof they gave us struggle with a series of clear points, one Now we will illustrate various situations in remand (imprisonment before trial), but of them is the end of F.I.E.S. (Fichero de Barcelona with the arrests and prisoner solidarity movement. 27 Internos de Especial Seguimiento) and other on the same level these movements group all sorts of different realities, and it isolation unit systems inside Spanish prisons, as ETA, and by also putting in the actually became quite consistent, and a and the end of dispersal as a method of Press, the actual names of prisoners consistent set of connections was built repression; as the practice of situating involved in struggle, and isolating them between the groups. prisoners far away from their families is as the 'most dangerous prisoners in agonising. The prisoners also demand the the country'. At the same time this attracted a lot of liberty for terminally ill prisoners and freedom police attention, and the State decided that for prisoners that have spent more than twenty In this way the State tried to create these meetings couldn't happen anymore, years in prison. It's important to point out that friction with the groups outside, they so a series of repressive measures the struggle begins inside the prison, and that used a discourse that manages to put happened, especially against the Italian it is the contact with people outside that one group against each other. So comrades in the form of a series of expands the struggle and becomes stronger. more reformist groups tried to find investigations. Some people got detained, pacifist solutions to this conflict, and some of these investigations are still So outside different groups who were moving they tried to divide the prisoners, happening now, and as explained before, on the issue of solidarity, made contact with putting them one against each other by the same phenomena happened, in the each other, while before they were quite putting different ideas in their heads. sense that people decided that this big isolated. A lot of people begin to come out on 'anti-prison' movement and set of groups the streets, the prisoners and the people Then they began with actual arrests of attracted too much police attention, and outside bring out to light issues that before people outside, they arrest an anar- the attention of the State, so lots of people had not really come out, the situation of FIES chist group, accusing them of terrorism and groups begin to disappear from this Prisoners (FIES are notoriously brutal isolation and sending bombs. After this first hit, network, so again, the State managed to units in the prisons). what happens is that a lot of people empty a lot of the hope that was put into just vanish from the struggle, and a lot this process. In this moment, what happens is that the of people who were involved just struggle expands and comes a lot bigger and disappear, and so this makes the becomes a lot more solvent. So what happens prisoners who are inside, who had Patricio : as well, is a lot of small isolated anarchist begun the struggle, who had put a lot So I'm arrested in 1987 as a groups start to create a lot more solid contacts of hope in the people outside, very social prisoner and when I entered the with each other, and also create contacts with disillusioned. prison, I realised that the prisoners ran the other groups who maybe don't have the same prison. The prison guards were scared of political slant, but that work with prisoners and us and were isolated from us, they would the issue of prisons. A turning point was also Translator: not enter our cells, or come onto the patio, that things that before that were hard to do, The next big blow came with or yard. There was a lot of drug dealing, a and that still are today, but at that moment the decision to form a co-ordination of lot of mafia inside the prison, going against revolutionary action, had more sense, in the anti-prisons groups including other what the authorities say about sense that people actually understood it. people who carried a radical critique of rehabilitation. In 1982 a reform of the People would understand a revolutionary prison system and of the prison prison system which had existed under action. People outside would understand a society, so the discourse expanded a Franco's dictatorship happened, the revolutionary action. The society began to lot more. What happened was various authorities especially wanted to try to break accept it more, because they began to groups throughout Europe decided to the political movement inside the prisons, understand why it was happening. And also meet every 2 months or less, this the 'COPEL' (Co-ordination of Prisoners in another tuning point was that the contacts that begin around 2002-03, and they Struggle). existed, that were created inside the prisons carried out large meetings to exchange with the movements outside were strong. We ideas, experiences. On one hand they The Government started to give a series of never managed after that to create such tried to discuss a radical critique of appeasements, amongst other things, they strong links with people inside. prisons and discuss what solidarity started to give permissions for prisoners to should be, and on the other hand tried go out, on day release, and they cut The State realised that this is a concrete to organise actions, like the occupation sentences if you agreed to work inside threat, and that it cannot allow this to happen, of prisons being built and things like prison. Every day you worked, they took a so it carries out several repressive measures, this. Several meetings happened all day from your sentence. They allowed vis- on the one hand, on the Media level, putting over Europe; in France, in Italy, in a-vis communication between prisoners Spain. These meetings started to re- and also their visitors, by doing this they tried to appease the prisoners movement, and give them the mentality that if “I behave inside the prison I will be rewarded and get out quicker, rather than rebelling.”

At the same time they inserted a series of measures, raiding cells, isolating people...

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Overleaf we have a complete interview with Patricio, which was done in Barcelona, Nov 2006. We present it here in the hope of more anti-system, anti-prison ideas to spread, develop and find outbreak......

28 helped a lot, so they were the point of union between us and outside. Prisoners what they need is people outside that support a bit, for example if there is this, there will always some-one inside that feels the strenght to rebel, without support outside, no, because you feel isolated on your own, and its very hard to do anything

- What kind of repercussions did you have inside the prison, following up what was going on outside?

More than anything, when the struggle began there were some contacts. What happened was that they related the contacts to specific prisoners, so whatever Barcelona, November 2006. Amedeu Caselles, a political prisoner. He was in for armed robbery but he action happened outside, they related you to that specific group which did an action. >> was there for political reasons, he was an anarchist. Thanks to him the whole So what they did to me was that they made me do my entire sentence without parole, So my name is Patricio Pallarès Bayona. question was pushed forward a lot. He arrived there in Ponent, and he or any kind of benefit, and they applied the anti-terrorist conditions. They classified me It's more or less 5 or 6 months since I came was also in the group. So the as an active member of anti-system groups. out of prison- extermination centres- because anarchist ideology came a little bit Ok, at the root of this, we were isolated, prisons are extermination centres. I stayed because he talked to us about it, but separated. So all the people who were quite a long time, more or less 17 years since in prison ideology doesn't exist. For rebellious were put in specific modules 1987. I became a prisoner for social example some-one could be a fascist, with other prisoners who were there to delinquency, because life in that period was because in prison everyone is in the control you. You feel like an animal in a harsh, that was the circumstances; so when i same boat, and so these kind of cage, with some-one always looking at you, fell into imprisonment, so inside the prison, stories can't exist, we all have to only here we are in prison. So when I that is where my struggle began. I was 17 follow the same line. So what he tried rebelled it was beatings, locked in and and I wasn't politically conscious or anything, to do was politicise a little bit and isolated in my cell. Before coming out now, so Igot all my consciousness I got in prison. plant ideas of anarchy, and what was experienced went on for a couple of I had to protest by getting on the roof in Llieda, because there the situation was - What kind of struggles did you participate years. It is practically impossible to getting too harsh. I thought I would never in, in prison?. organise a movement inside prison because they catch you quickly, you're get out, so what I did was get on the roof and they put me in first-degree, and then in Struggle inside the prison are normally simply very controlled. Imagine just the Modelo. So the rebellion alway exists, struggles in solidarity with other prisoners. today how controlled the streets are, but what you can't do is sit there and look They are based on hunger strikes, on lock-ins, well just imagine, it's like small around, and just be a spectator. Rebellion refusing to work and of course mutinies. communities but very well controlled. It's very hard to carry on with these is an everyday thing inside prison, it is everyday life, people outside don't need to - Can you talk to me about the group kind of things because they disperse look after the people inside, we can look 'Presos en Lucha' and how you you and very rapidly get rid of you, after ourselves. participated? and when the situation is very bad the authorities never have any doubts - And in these years you spent in prison, So the group 'Presos en Lucha' began about getting you out of the way. If how did you see the prison system because there was lots of discontent against they need to get you out of the way, change, how did you experience this the new penal code. The penal code of '96. they just get you out of the way. change and can you tell me what is There was lots of discontent, because a large prison in reality and what is life in prison, portion of prisoners believed that they would - Within this experience, how did how are the relationships between be released because of this reform. In reality you establish the necessity of a prisoners, between screws, between they would have been released, but what parallel struggle from outside, and prisoners and screws? happen was the State also paralysed the law how did this parallel struggle evolve of 18/21*. Because of this not many people or develop? The reason why the prison system changes were released. We were about 4-5 prisoners is because of changes of governments, for that were ready for the struggle, and against The struggle outside is previous to the when the competance passes to the the prison system. We believed that we could struggle inside, inside there has Generalitat, the local government. They take advantage of this general discontent. always been people struggling, when I established a new project and this project Also when the group 'Presos en Lucha' was in prison there was lots of people was a long term project and within it they began I was in Llerida, and participated in the who struggled and resisted but never introduced permits,and the law of Committee for Prisoner Mutual Support. with the support from outside. This redemption and so forth. Why? well, time what happened that the things because before the prisoners were the The truth is that it didn't last for a long time, co-incided, and there was lots of owners of the prison and they wanted to because after a short time they divided us, people with contacts outside. So at change this. They introduced the "mini applied what is called 'dispersion'. the base of this, we tried to develop a reform" around 1982, and with this they collaboration and what also helped a gave special redemption or permits to - For how long did this experience last? lot was bulletins, what happens was people that worked inside the prison. If you the bulletins came into the prison, but refused to work you didn't get any vis-a-vis For what concerns 'Presos en Lucha' a when the screws realised they quickly (face to face visits), any permits, any couple of years. For example there was also cut this off. The newsletters also

29 conditional liberty. So for example if you had - And to understand a bit more how been a lot of repression in the streets lately, a 30 year sentence, if you did all they wanted prisons here in Catalunya work, can but I thought that people could find and with conditional liberty you would end up you explain how the "grupo de solutions, and I don't know, everything serving a maximum of five years... tratamiento" works , how the seems to be a bit static, not moving... resocialisation program works, and - And what kind of repercussion did the what role do drugs have in prisons? - A bit of disillusionment let's say... introduction of all these new reforms, this more permissive system have on the There is a lot of drugs, and they are Yes, disillusionment especially, because struggle inside prison, on the prisoners against prisoners. It is the very screws when you are released from first degree and themselves, on the relation among that sell drugs, and when it's not them you leave your people behind, they are your prisoners?... anyway, they allow it. There is this kind comrades that have participated in mutinies of permissivity because it pacifies with you, or many of them find themselves in people, it is not the same to keep a prison for having supported you from The stuggle inside prison began back then prisoner whose only daily worry is to outside during the struggles, so when you because people wanted to leave the prison, find something to shoot up with, than go out and they see themselves left locked so what happens the system that was to deal with a prisoner whose only in, they tell you, "well see what you can do, introduced basically gave you the keys in worry is to leave and is up for now you are out there..." For example the your hands and what do people do? They go anything. The truth is that drugs have people of Valencia that participated in the for the easiest solution. This put off a lot of done a lot of damage and still do. For sruggle, well they went in for a couple of the people (from resisting). People began to example they distribute a lot of light things and eventually found themselves work, they began to attend work-shops, the psychotropic drugs which are part of with heavy sentences, I would be ashamed "productive workshops". When they were the treatment you are forced into, and of seeing them again or going again in introduced it was a passport to the street. So if you refuse what happens is that you prison and seeing them there. people began to see that with working you don't get any benefits, no permits and got all sorts of benefits, also there is a lot of so on, so people are kept on a diet of I am not saying that people outside don't do poverty so if there is a way of helping the methadone, psychotropics and all this anything, I am just saying that there is a lack family in the street by earning some money... shit. Also they started distributing of coodination and organisation between So what happned is that the struggle inside syringes, but this resulted in a the different groups, it is about time we get prison was hindered and pretty much problem considering that there are our act together. stopped, it was definitely stopped. They lots of illnessess in prisonn and began to apply what is known as F.I.E.S people started using syringes as a - For you what is solidarity? (isolation units)... And now it's the screws weapon. that own the prison. Really of prisoners in Solidarity is arriving to comrades when they struggle, if there is a fourth of the prison - So did the circulation of drugs need you... population (that resists) then all the rest of change since the 80's, what kind of the other three fourths are there to control impact and what kind of changes - And at the level of the anti-prison this one fourth of struggling prisoners. occured in this time? struggle today how do you see the role of solidarity unfolding? Prison is the punishment of society, but a What changed is only on the face of bad image of punishment cannot be given in society, but in reality, drugs keep on The anti-prison struggle- I wouldn't see it as the face of the general population, so you circulating and the situation is pretty ‘solidarity’. ‘Solidarity’ I see as part of the have this image of a welcoming place which much the same inside, they did lots of anarchist ideology, but with prisoners there focuses on rehabilitation, but in reality prison TV programs showing how they are is no need of solidarity. Why? because doesn't rehabilitate anything. The problem is trying to make an effort to stop drugs people inside are on their own, it is them not the bad people, it's the fault of the in prison, but in reality it is just in the that have to struggle for their freedom. Us system in the streets, that's why people are face of society they do this, inside that are out in the streets, and I include forced to steal or whatever.... things remain the same. myself there, we have to struggle against the prison as a system, I don't struggle for - Before we were talking about the the people inside. I left my comrades behind movement outside prison, when you and all, of course I help them, but that is were released what impressions did normal, I don't see that as solidarity. But the you have of what is going on anti-prison struggle doesn't boil down to outside... Was it as you imagined, solidarity, it is a struggle against the system. were you deceived? - So how do you see the anti-prison No I imagined that at least things struggle, how do you feel you contribute were more organised, that there was to it... more unity amongst people, the reality is that I am fed up to go to meetings The problem is that within the anti-prison where there is nothing more than struggle people are very reactionary and never-ending discussions and you that is a problem when something happens, leave with nothing in your hand more they respond, it should be a constant confused than before. You realise you struggle. We should not wait for something just went there to discuss, that there to happen to fight back. is never an agreement between people, an agreement that gives you Another thing is giving people inside the will the will to continue and go on. to continue, animate them, by writing, Everything seems to be in a phase of sending fanzines inside and finding new stasis, the truth is also that there has ways of sending information and material inside...

30 Which Memory?

On the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), this poster was fly-posted on the walls of Lecce, Italy:

As events are being organized to remem- But it is exclusion, in all its different forms, called Juan is accused of, and for which he is ber the deportation of millions and their that guarantees the existence of what- being held in Spain waiting to be extradited. torture and death in the Nazi camps, no ever political and economic regime, in one seems to remember that such places Germany in the 1930s as well as in And the detention centres are the same as still exist today, even if concealed be- Fortress Europe and the western world that which was the target of a tenacious hind other names. today. struggle by Salento anarchists, on trial today, and for which three of them have been held in The undesirables of the nazi regime were Millions of people are compelled to leave prison or under house arrest for nearly two locked up in concentration camps; today their homeland and loved ones owing to years. thousands of foreign people without docu- wars and social catastrophes; and as ments are incarcerated in immigration de- they arrive in the ‘civilized word’ in the Article 270bis (subversive association aiming tention camps waiting to be deported to hope of a better life, they find exploitation, at committing acts of terrorism) is the instru- their countries of origin. racism and prisons. ment that has been used in both of these cases to silence those who did not want to Rightwing and leftwing politicians, through The trains that carry the undesirables to keep quiet and to frighten all the others. the rhetoric of ‘memory’, are closing a detention camps or deportation are the blind eye on their responsibility: they build same that many people in good faith are Awareness of the past only makes sense if it immigration detention centres and order boarding today to visit extermination leads to the unmasking of the atrocities of the police raids against immigrants and their camps and remember the dead. present… so that concentration camps really deportation. do become just a memory. They are the same trains that have been Today it is being said that the concen- set fire to in solidarity to the deported tration camps of the past are exceptional immigrants, an action which a comrade A few enemies of past and present events in history, as if today the world concentration camps was immune to this risk. www.guerrasociale.org

- When you were released, and when even exist, there is no space, there are you came into contact with the prison too many people... society outside, how did you relate it to the prison itself, how would you - Do you want to add anything? compare it? No, not really, I just want comrades to In reality I feel a prisoner now as well, get more animated and organise you don't have screws but you have themselves better... police, you are always controlled, there are cameras everywhere: everything is - Before we were talking about very much controlled, I don't feel free solidarity... what do you think about being outside, to go where i want to do international solidarity? what i want, the only thing perhaps that changes is that you don't get constantly I think it is a good thing but I can't beaten up as you do inside.... give an opinion on it because I have not had the possibility to experience *Which means that the law which declared - This depends... and understand what it actually people adults at 21 was lowered to 18, but means. It is not long I have been in the this law was suspended for the prisoners, meaning that those 18-21 were held in adult The point is that i feel like a prisoner street, so I'd rather wait before giving conditions and were not released. anyway. The world has became very an opinion... small, too small, fuck when I first -End entered prison, mobile phones didn't 31 Greece : Anarchists on hungerstrike Ctra. de Alcora, km.10 prisoners Parole Applications for the rest of are freed before trial - After 70 days of 12006 Castellón the prisoners life. This means Don will hunger strike, all three detainees arrested serve a minimum 6 years inside, but if the after the European Social Forum demon- Carolina Forné Roig Parole Board wishes, he could end up stration, on the 6th of May 2006, are C.P. BRIANS serving 8, 12, 16, 26, 36, 46, etc., years in being released after a decision by the Carretera de Martorell a Capellades, prison. He may even die in prison without Jurys' Council. They will be free under km 23 ever being released! The jailing of Don to restrictions, still awaiting trial. Two out of 08635 Sant Esteve Sesrovires(Modul an 'Indefinite Prison Sentence' is an the three detainees had been on a de dones) outrage. Don has not killed or physically hunger strike since December, protesting Barcelona injured anyone. He has carried out arsons against their 8-month imprisonment, against targets associated with the which had been based on some obscure Rafael Tomás i Gaspar vivisection industry including Huntingdon testimonies by policemen. Since Tarassio C.P. BRIANS Life Sciences, that have not harmed Zandarozni, has been on a hunger for 70 Carretera de Martorell a Capellades, anyone. days and Yerassimos Kyriakopoulos for km 23 54 days, they are in hospital as they have 08635 Sant Esteve Sesrovires Donald Currie TN4593, already had severe disturbance on their Barcelona HMP Whitemoor, health. Hopefully the two hunger strikers Longhill Road, will gradually come back their nutrition Igor Quevedo Aragai March, and will stay in hospital until they recover. C.P. BRIANS Cambs, Carretera de Martorell a Capellades, PE15 OPR, km 23 England. Catalunya : Current situation of the 08635 Sant Esteve Sesrovires MR-1 "September 2003/ Barcelona 6" case Barcelona - All current prisoners of this case (all of Italy : More repression against eco- them having been sentenced to 7 1/2 anarchists 'Il Silvestre', for organising years of imprisonment) are now being UK : Animal Rights prisoner given GM-Crop demonstration - In October held in different prisons than some 'Indefinite Prison Sentence' - On the 2000, the group, Il Silvestre, organised two months ago. Roger and Teo, the 2 other 7th of December 2006 British Animal days of protest in Florence, Italy, against people charged in connection with the Rights prisoner, Donald Currie, was GM crops. On the first day of the protests case, are not in prison now. The 'Barce- given an 'Indefinite Prison Sentence' almost 100 people demonstrated outside lona 6' were arrested in 2003, and were with a minimum tariff of six years. This the Agriculture University and at the convicted of forming a terrorist group, is a new type of sentence. Tradition- premises of Menarini pharmaceutical. The possessing firearms and explosives, ally in Britain people are given either protesters handed out leaflets, blocked damage to banks, sending an explosive Fixed Term sentences or Life sen- roads, sloganised walls and Menarini device in the mail to the Greek Embassy tences. With a fixed term sentence pharmaceutical was paintbombed. On the in solidarity with anarchists on anyone who is given a sentence of second day the protest grew to about 300 hungerstriker, as well as other serious more than four years is given an people in total. The protesters planned to charges. Carol and Igor are held in a automatic Parole Hearing date at the march through the city centre ending up "regular" module in Brians prison, half way stage of their sentence. For outside the DuPont building. However the without restrictions related to mail or example, a prisoner who is serving riot police decided to prevent this march phone calls. Rafa's situation is a bit more 12-years, will automatically be and blocked the streets. The protesters complicated. He was transferred to considered for parole after 6 years. tried to negotiate with the police to be Brians prison on November 15th, he's At the parole hearing the Parole allowed to continue in their lawful protest. now in a "special" module, that means Board will decide whether to release The negotiations ended when the police isolation. He has 3 hours of "patio", and the prisoner or say they must to serve baton charging the demonstrators. The 21 hours in his cell. He only has more of their sentence before their demonstrators defended themselves from something to write and read, no music, release. So in Don Currie's case the the police with their placards, as the police no radio... His mail is being checked, Judge obviously felt he should receive chased the protesters through the city either incoming or outcoming, and only 4 a 12-year sentence and so gave Don centre. At the end of the day scores of calls a month. He's going to be in that a minimum tariff of six years. However, protesters were injured and 26 people situation for at least 4 weeks until he's the crucial point is that because Don were under arrest, six of whom were given a new "grade". has NOT been given a Fixed Term remanded into custody for a few days. In sentence there is no two-thirds stage March 2004, out of the original 26 ar- Their current addresses of his sentence. This means he has rested, 13 were on trial with the no automatic release date. If the prosecution asking for jail sentences of Joaquín Garcés Villacampa Parole Board wishes they can keep between 18 months and 2 years. The trial CP Castellón rejecting an Indefinite Sentence was meant to end in June 2004 but the trial

32 had to be delayed as the Judge failed to Jonathan Paul are set to go to trial in June. Despite the various guilty pleas in the appear in court!!! Francesco Gioia, Oregon case, this case is not over. There Via Maiano, 10, are still at least three defendants in this Eventually, after a very prolonged case, 11 06049 Spoleto, case who locations are unknown to the people were convicted of their role in the Italy. case and given prison sentences. However FBI. Also, Briana Waters has formally pleaded not guilty to the University of none of those sentences could start until Il Silvestre activist sentenced to 5 Washington fire and is scheduled for trial in after the defendants had had a chance to years 2 months for promoting & May 2007. All the defendants are accused appeal their sentences. On the 4th of participating in COR direct action. of serious ‘crimes’ in defence of the Earth. December 2006, the 11 defendants ap- Also awaiting trial for escaping from peared before the Court of Appeal, in house arrest. Florence. Out of the 11, one was aquitted, 8 Italy : Court updates on the Operation had their prison sentences reduced to an 8 Silvia Guerini, 'Nottetempo' against anarchists from month suspended sentence, whilst the (Under house arrest) remaining two had their prison sentences Lecce, Italy - On February 20, 2007, due to a decision in court, Salvatore Signore reduced to one year each. One of the Il Silvestre member accused of using was sent back to prison and Marina Ferrari defendants who has been sentenced to a explosives to damage an electricity was placed back under house arrest. one-year imprisonment is Costantino Ragusa, pylon. who is accused of being the organiser of the Salvatore Signore anti-GM protest. Constantino is already in Federico Bonamici, C.C.Borgos prison, serving five years for his alleged role (Under house arrest) in the C.O.R. actions (Offensive Revolution- Nicola 73100 Lecce ary Cells, an armed marxist group). He was Il Silvestre member accused of using Italy also, before his imprisonment, serving an 18- explosives to damage an electricity month suspended sentence for burgling and pylon. Also accused of planning to Marina Ferrari firebombing a multi-national company. Now overthrow the State. he is imprisoned he must serve all his Via XXI Aprile 29 sentences consecutively, therefore 73042 Casarano (LE) Constantino is now serving seven and a half Italy years imprisonment. In addition to the above, Constantino is also a defendant in the The hearing which was held on February 8 forthcoming Il Silvestre Trial where ten Il took place without the defendants and the Silvestre members are accused of using public remaining in court. As the trial was explosives to destroy electricity pylons due to begin, in fact, one of the defendants carrying nuclear power. read out a declaration explaining the reasons why they were about to leave the Costantino Ragusa, court and would not attend the next Casa Circondariale, hearing either. After they left, the comrades Via Prati Nuovi 7, distributed leaflets in the streets of Lecce. 27058 Voghera (PV), It is known that other witnesses for the Italy. prosecution made their deposition, including the Digos chief from Reggio Il Silvestre activist serving 7½ years. 1) Five Emilia, who testified about a demo carried out in that region in November 2003 years for promoting & participating in C.O.R. USA : Update in Oregon, from against Morini, the infamous Italian farm direct action. 2) 18-months for burgling and Operation 'Backfire'- In Mid-Decem- that supplies laboratories with dogs to be firebombing a multinational company. 3) 12- ber 2006, the police informants used in experiments. As some of the months for organising an anti-GM protest. Stanislas Meyerhoff and Chelsea defendants took part in that demo, the Costanino is also awaiting trial accused of Gerlach pleaded guilty to their role in prosecution claims that they made threat- using explosives to damage an electricity the 1998 Earth Liberation Front arson ening telephone calls to operators of the pylon in protest at nuclear energy. against the ski resort at Vail, Regina Pacis camp on their way to Reggio Colorado. The two both claimed they Emilia. The text of the declaration can be William Frediani acted alongside William 'Bill' found adjacent. The hearing held on (Bailed pending an appeal) Rodgers, who they accredited as January 25 was once again focused on the being the leading light behind the depositions of witnesses for the Il Silvestre activist sentenced to 6 years arson. Two other people, Josephine prosecution: the managers of Benetton imprisonment for promoting & participating in Overtaker and Rebecca Rubin, whose shops in Lecce, which had been targets of COR direct action. locations are currently unknown, have anarchist demos in solidarity to the also been indicted on the Vail arson Mapuche people in Chile, and the Digos Benedetta Galante, charge. Also in mid-December 06, (Italian political police) chiefs from Viterbo Casa Circondariale, Judge Ann Aiken, set the sentencing and Turin. The latter's statement was Contrada Capo di Monte, dates of all of the defendants who particularly astonishing: first he made a 82100 - Benevento (BN), have pleaded guilty in the Oregon connection between the anarchist paper Italy. Trial. All the dates for the police 'Tempi di guerra' ('correspondences of the informants are set for late May, so this struggle against the detention camps for Il Silvestre activist sentenced to 3 years 6 applies to : Stanislas Meyerhoff, Kevin immigrants and the world that produces months for promoting & participating in COR Tubbs, Chelsea Gerlach, Suzanne them') and a few incendiary attacks direct action. Also awaiting trial accused of Savoie, Kendall Tankersley and Darren recently carried out in Turin; then he using explosives to damage an electricity Thurston (level of police co-operation boasted that anarchists can be divided in pylon in protest at nuclear energy. unknown). The non-cooperating two categories: those who practice direct defendants - Nathan Block, Joyanna actions and belong to the FAI (Anarchist Zacher, Daniel McGowan and

33 Doctor Katia Cazzato and Doctor tial Palace during a September 10 protest Declaration to the high Ruberti, made their depositions. The march. The order to monitor the groups was doctors had compiled false medical issued by Judge Leonardo de la Prida, and court of Lecce certificates following a violent beating the Special Investigations Brigade of the inflicted on immigrants who had tried Chilean Civil Police (Bipe) is now actively We are more and more aware of the fact that to escape the Regina Pacis camp. creating a “register” of all anarchist groups Although Cazzato and Ruberti were operating in the country, documenting the the intention to get rid of anarchists in any groups’ leaders, members, ideology, way possible has been openly declared by this not present on that occasion, they drew up certificates presenting financing, operating areas, and possible court, as it has in many others all over the bruises and wounds inflicted by connections to foreign anarchist country following a precise choice made by carabinieri and priest Lodeserto as movements. The new crackdown on Chile’s power at a national level. the result of falls. Both doctors denied anarchist movement lead to a raid in the San any wrongdoing. Ignacio borough of Santiago. Six young The instrument of the ‘subversive association’ anarchists were arrested in a squatter has served to prevent us from going about All requests put forward by the settlement, and police said the group had our lives, our interests, affections and a defence in favour of the three com- Molotov cocktails in their possession. One rades still under house arrest (permis- of the arrested included a Spanish citizen, struggle that was becoming really effective in Miquel Balaguer, identified as being a leader this area. In fact, some comrades were sion to work and the possibility to go to the court without a police escort) in the Barcelona-based “Okupa” (Squatter) arrested and have been held in prison or were rejected. It appears clear that movement. Police Chief José Bernales said under house arrest regardless of what the Salvatore, Saverio and Cristian will be that police found evidence the group had final outcome of the court will be. held under house arrest until the end participated in the violent marches that of the trial. Furthermore the refusal to occurred on September 10 and 11 com- This court has constantly and obstinately grant even the smallest request memorating the September 11, 1973 refused any moments of ‘socialisation’ during presented by their lawyers gives the military coup lead by Gen. Augusto Pinochet the breaks in the hearings between those of impression that the strings of this trial (ST, Sept. 11). The police suspected the are being pulled far beyond the court. group is connected with other anarchist us who are free and those who are under groups, and according to the cops, house arrest, with the precise intention of Until now it had been taken for granted that charges of subversive evidence was found indicating the group keeping the latter isolated from any social or association would be dropped and had been planning violent actions for an personal contact. This also explains why all that some of the defendants would be upcoming October 9 protest march in requests for permission to work, which would accused of specific crimes alone, but support of Chile’s native Mapuche popula- allow the comrades under house arrest to it now seems that this trial is being tion. organise their lives, have been systematically used in order to effectively sentence refused. anarchists for subversive association for the first time. The investigation and The Lecce anarchists opposed themselves to prosecution of anarchists from Lecce, the intolerable existence of immigration de- is a clampdown on those who aspire to destroy CPT's (Immigrantion tention centres; but as exploitation and re- Detention Centres) and particulary the pression are at the foundation of this society, anarchists, who want to destroy all the State decided to punish them. The fact cells and borders forever. The that the local CPT was run by powerful people detention centre at San Foca, 'Regina has intensified the revenge. Pacis' was a notoriously cruel limbo run by the corrupt priest Cesare Anarchists, however, are sparks that can be Lodeserto, it was closed down, so the contagious because they love freedom and investigations, jailings and trial had to cannot stand those who want to suppress it. begin. Anyone who was seen acting against the detention centres or UK : Government begins installation of showing solidarity with excluded cameras able to see through clothes and Ideas and solidarity cannot be imprisoned, in people was seen as also requiring a walls - As widely reported by the main- spite of all your efforts. prison cell, to stop their agitation stream media, the State is installing igniting any more trouble. The 150,000 microwave beacons on lamposts For this reason we have decided to leave the defendants are charged with 'subver- to allow fixed cameras, and hand held court today, and not attend the hearing on sive association'/conspiracy and a scanners the size of a shoe-box, to both see February 22. number of other crimes, which include through your clothing to detect concealed attacks against banks, attacks against objects, and see through the walls of your house or vehicle. The police will then store Lecce, February 8 2007. targets connected with CPT's, actions in solidarity with Mapuche the 3D images in a central database. These people in Chile and sabotage of microwave cameras are being installed Saverio Alemanno, Annalisa Capone, Andrea petrol stations against the Iraq war. already in London's Canary Wharf district, D’Alba, Massimo De Carlo, Alessandro Di home to the headquaters of banks such as Mitri, Marina Ferrari, Cristian Paladini, Saverio HSBC, and other financial companies. They Pellegrino, Laura Prontera, Salvatore Signore. Chile : Crackdown on anarchist are also being used on the borders, for groups in Santiago - Chilean police example being used to see through the Informal Federation) and those who do not launched a new offensive against the sides of a lorry in locations such as the practise it. He also revised the thesis of various anarchist groups operating in entrance to the Channel Tunnel. This kind of anarchist 'subversive associations' aimed at Santiago on December 29, in technology, known as 'passive millimetre committing acts of terrorism. On January 18 response to the Molotov cocktails wave imaging' (MMW) can also be used to another hearing of the 'Nottetempo' trial was launched at the La Moneda Presiden- see through poor weather. In foggy weather held. Witnesses for the prosecution, including MMW scanners can give a clear outline of

34 the lie of the land, giving strategic deportation of immigrants. the RAF, imprisoned since 1972: Andreas advantages in defence applications. Al- Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe. though this technology has been developed Juan had just spent several months in After nearly a quarter century passed in in the United States, a lot of the develop- prison in Italy for resisting a police prison, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, now 57, ment work is being done in the UK and so of identification check in Rovereto in according to German justice, does not course is going to be widely implemented June of 2006. He and three of his present danger to the country anymore. Three here. The relevant patents are held by or anarchist companions resisted the more RAF members remain in prison. developed for the UK Secretary of State for cops attempt to drag them to a police Defence but the lamp post beacons are station. Police reinforcements were being implemented by The National Roads called in and the police officers hit an Russia : Bomb attack against Food Not Telecommunications Services Project for the anarchist in the face with a flash light Bombs in St.Petersburg - On the 4th of Department of Transport. and let loose with punches and kicks. February a small bomb, supplied with a timing The anarchists reacted, six cops device, exploded at 4:20 PM in Vladimirskaya sought first aid and one cop car was square of St. Petersburg, where Food Not Greece : Light sentences for anarchists damaged. Juan was sentenced to nine Bombs is organised every sunday by different who stole riot police equipment - On months in prison for this incident. In a rotating groups. The bomb was hidden by a Tuesday, January 9, 2007, 3 men accused of statement from prison, he and his kiosk selling flowers, but as the device was stealing equipment from riot police during companion Mike described their small, it just damaged the kiosk and nobody clashes with officers in central Athens in May resistance as an act of solidarity with was hurt. Obviously, purpose of the bomb 2005 were issued with far more lenient immigrants who also face identifica- was not to kill but to terrorize. Luckily, that day sentences than had been anticipated, with tion checks, but under a more serious Food Not Bombs was late on schedule and one being acquitted. A prosecutor had threat of deportation or death during activists showed up a few minutes after the recommended that Giorgos Kalaitzidis, 27, escape attempts. At the end of explosion, and food was given to homeless Panayiotis Aspiotis, 28, and Petros September, a judge suspended Juan’s people without any problems. Usually 4:20 Karasarinis, 41, all be found guilty of forming sentence, with the condition that Juan would be the moment with most people a criminal gang, causing explosions and the remain in a different town and not gathering in the square for food. Russian illegal possession of firearms. But an Athens leave, though his home was Rovereto. nazis have used explosives quite often, last court yesterday cleared Karasarinis and gave He left anyway and was arrested in time in Moscow 22nd of December a bomb jail sentences to Kalaitzidis and Aspiotis, of Spain. Juan was also one of the four set up against local anti-fascists wounded a 21 months and 8 months respectively, after Rovereto anarchists arrested after the number of police who attempted to neutralise finding them guilty of possessing firearms. snatching of the Olympic flame in the device. Last August in Moscow a bomb Aspiotis has already served his term. January of 2006, an action which one set up by nazis killed 11 in Cherkisovski Kalaitzidis and Aspiotis were cleared of the of the arrested anarchists, Massimo, marketplace. Nazis have often targeted Food other charges. The prosecutor claimed claimed in court as being related to Not Bombs in St. Petersburg. On the 14th of Kalaitzidis had planned the firebomb attack the exploitation of immigrant workers January 2007, FNB activist Ivan Elin suffered on the riot police and the subsequent theft of on the Olympic-related construction 20 stab wounds when returning home from shields, helmets, tear gas and other equip- project of the TAV high-speed railway. action but he is recovering. 13th of November ment. 2005 another Food Not Bombs activist Timur Juan Antonio Sorroche Fernández Kacharava was murdered. Casa Circondariale Ctr. Catalunya : Gathering in Solidarity with Castrogno 64100 Anarchist Prisoner Juan Sorroche - A Teramo Britain: SAS military forces unit to be gathering in front of the Italian consulate in Italy permanently stationed in London - A unit of Barcelona was called for January 24th, Britain’s elite military force, the Special Air 2007, in solidarity with anarchist prisoner Service (SAS), is to be permanently based in Juan Antonio Sorroche Fernández, who was Germany : RAF member Brigitte London. Its team of assassins, surveillance arrested on December 21st, 2006, in Girona Mohnhaupt granted parole - After specialists and bomb-disposal experts will be by the Guardia Civil (Spanish military police) 24 years of prison, she was granted a on 24-hour alert. The Ministry of Defence has in cooperation with the Italian Carabinieri release on a five year parole by a requested that the location of the unit be kept (Italian paramilitary police). Juan was German court on February 12, 2007. secret. Although the SAS has been involved searched and detained as part of an investi- She was imprisoned for her actions as in several raids in London recently, this is the gation based on article 270bis, "subversive a revolutionary militant of the left-wing first time it will have a permanent base in the association for the purpose of terrorism", group that shook Germany in the UK outside of its headquarters in rural under the Italian legal code. Juan was 70's: the Red Army Faction. Amidst Herefordshire. The unit was flown by imprisoned in the anti-terror prison regime of widespread political controversy, the helicopter to London in July 2005 when Soto del Real Apdo, Madrid. Now he has German president is also currently bombs exploded on the Underground rail been extradited back to Italy. It seems that considering pardoning RAF member network and helped police find suspects the Italian state is taking the example from Christian Klar, who filed a pardon involved in a second bomb attempt and also the Spanish state and has began to apply application years ago. Brigitte to storm their homes. Alongside the move of the systematic dispersion of all dissident Mohnhaupt is regarded as one of the the SAS to London has been the decision by prisoners. Therefore Juan has been sent to a brains of the kidnap and assassina- the intelligence agency MI5 to expand its jail that is to 7 hours from the place where he tion, of industrialist Hanns-Martin networks and set up a special headquarters has roots (Rovereto). Juan’s criminal charge Schleyer, former officer of the SS and on the outskirts of London with teams of is related to various acts of sabotage in President of the German Employers' surveillance specialists, allowing them greater Rovereto, Italy, where he had been living. Association (and thus one of the most access to the rest of the country. Both These include attacks on banks, police powerful industrialists in West developments are in line with a major security vehicles, cell-phone relay equipment and the Germany, the "boss of the German review carried out by Home Secretary John burning of three train-units of the Trenitalia bosses"). Hans-Martin Schleyer was Reid, who is calling for the Cabinet Office to railway company, an attack for which an kidnapped on September 5, 1977, be given responsibility for managing the anonymous claim of responsibility was made with the objective to obtain the government’s counter-terrorist strategy. because of the company’s involvement in the release of three founder members of

35 Two years ago, the Blair government prisons have ended their “death fast”, negotiation . . . to resolve the political announced the expansion of the special following the Turkish government’s conflict between the Basque region and the forces and the intelligence services as part announcement that it would improve French and Spanish states,” said de Juana of the “war on terror.” Extra funding has conditions in the jails. Prisoners will from his secure hospital room in Madrid, been given to four squadrons of the 22 now be able to meet together in where he is being force-fed by authorities. SAS unit, the Royal Marines and the naval groups and have greater time to “After the event at Barajas . . . resolution of equivalent of the SAS, the Special Boat socialise and see visitors. Lawyer the conflict is more necessary than ever,” he Service. The director of special forces now Behic Asci was taken to hospital for said in written answers. For the Spanish attends the 'COBRA' civil emergencies treatment after ending his fast, after Government, de Juana’s protest over his meetings held by the cabinet office. It has 293 days without food. Since 1982, continued detention, two years after com- been widely reported that special forces 122 protesters have lost their lives pleting his sentence, is a growing political officers from the SAS, or possibly from the through the death fasts. Human rights nightmare. If he dies, de Juana will become a Force Research Unit (F.R.U - a covert unit groups, student organisations and martyr to the Basque independence move- answering to military intelligence), were unions joined demonstrations in ment. Some fear that ETA could use his involved in the killing of Jean Charles de recent months in support of the death to justify a renewed bombing cam- Menezes in July 2005. The officers were campaign. The Australian TAYAD paign, and there are reports that the group acting under the control of Cressida Dick, (Solidarity with Political Prisoners) has already been eyeing tourist spots for of the Metropolitan police, who has since committee, in a January 26 statement future attacks. But if the Government allows been promoted, and looks after the security welcoming the decision, said: “We him to serve out a reduced sentence at of the Royal family and other senior will continue our struggle with all home, as some judges advocate, it will officials. The innocent Brazilian electrician different means of resistance until provoke an outcry from the Right. Even if he was shot on his way to work. He was the isolation is removed totally.” were allowed home, it is far from certain that victim of an “shoot-to-kill” policy based on de Juana would survive. He said in his Israeli training, Operation Kratos, which interview that he would not abandon his was secretly adopted by police in 2003. protest for anything short of unconditional Far from retreating in the face of protests freedom. “I would not have abandoned the over the covert shoot-to-kill policy, the hunger strike in exchange for a reduced government has drafted into the capital a sentence. The only acceptable alternative is military unit whose primary purpose is to complete liberty and an end to the brutal conduct such operations. The SAS worked attacks on freedom of expression that this closely with the British Army’s Force legal process implies,” he said. De Juana was Research Unit, which was one of several sentenced in 1987 to 3,000 years in jail for covert units operating in Northern Ireland. his part in 25 deaths, including machine- From the early 1970s, British military policy gunning a car containing three soldiers, against the Irish Republican Army murdering a rear-admiral and planting a car increasingly relied on spies, dirty opera- bomb that killed 12 military policemen. He is tions, double agents, informers, army and also known for trying to orchestrate a James loyalist death squads, in addition to 25,000 Bond-style escape from a top-security prison or so regular troops. The SAS and the 14th using a helicopter, and is said to have Intelligence Company both became ordered prawns and champagne from his notorious for organising the killing of jailers to celebrate the killing of a politician republicans as part of this permanent and his wife. Under sentencing guidelines undercover war. In September 19, 2005, then in force he had to serve only 18 years Iraqi police officers arrested two under- and was due to be freed in 2004. The cover SAS officers at a Basra checkpoint, Government, fearing a public outcry, travelling in an unmarked car containing Spain & Basque Country : Iñaki de unearthed two opinion articles that he had weapons and explosives, which led to Juana Chaos must be freed! - A published in a Basque newspaper and accusations that they were acting as convicted key member of ETA, the charged him with making terrorist threats. agents provocateurs, encouraging Basque separatist group, who is Juan Fernando López Aguilar, the Justice sectarian violence. The readiness of the close to death after three months Minister, promised to do “whatever is in our Labour government to employ death without eating, has called on the power to prevent these releases”, adding squads on the streets of Britain’s capital Spanish Government to resume talks that the Government was working to has implications that go beyond the to reach a peace deal. In his first “construct new charges” against ETA possibility of innocent victims of terror interview since embarking on a prisoners “like we did with De Juana Chaos”. operations against Islamic fundamentalists. hunger strike 91 days ago, Iñaki de Despite his deteriorating condition, de Juana London has become one of the most Juana Chaos said that he strongly expressed no remorse for his killings and socially polarised cities in the world, where backed the peace process, which said that he felt no responsibility for the enclaves of the world’s super-rich elite are stalled after ETA detonated a huge tumult that his death could cause. “Can you surrounded by some of the worst living bomb at Barajas air-port, Madrid, on blame the repressed for the actions of the conditions and poorest people in the December 30. The blast destroyed a repressor? Can you blame the violated for country. More repressive measures will be multi-storey car park, killed two the actions of the violator?” he asked, necessary to control rising social and people and shattered a nine-month rhetorically. Faced with the prospect of his political discontent in the general popula- ceasefire that the group had own demise, he was contemplative. His tion, including the use of the most ruthless described as permanent. Now the mother died a week ago and doctors say killing machine in the British Army when the emaciated prisoner, a renowned that he could experience “sudden death” any need arises. hardliner viewed as a key figure in the day. “Not being able to live a normal life is peace process, has urged a fresh very hard. Only those of us who have effort to solve the conflict. “I am Turkey : 'Death fast' ends in victory - experienced it can understand it,” he said. completely in agreement with the “So that it is not repeated, the roots of the Turkish activists who have been on hunger democratic process of dialogue and conflict must be addressed.” strike in protest at the treatment of political prisoners in Turkey’s F-type isolation

36 incidents during the three-days of raising money to support Vahtang in prison, police violence against protestors that as in Russian prison relatives and friends of Catalunya : Ruben and Ignasi sentenced marked the G8 summit in Genoa on prisoners have to feed them. In his letters for attacks - On the 11th February, two 19-21 July 2001, saw the beating and Vahtang is in good spirits and is doing his anarchists in Barcelona were found guilty of arrest of 93 activists who were sentence without problems. You may write to property destruction against C.I.R.E, a public- sleeping in the Diaz school, against Vahtang to following address, but keep in private institution which manages prison whom allegations of criminal mind that he does not speak any other labour in Catalunya, and also an attack association aimed at destruction and languages except Russian - so if you do not against a bank, which was a branch of Banco committing violent acts intent were speak Russian, send stuff like photos and Sabadell. The sentence is the following for made. These were partly based on the drawings instead both: 2 years suspended sentence (under fabrication of evidence, particularly spanish law, you enter prison with a sentence the planting of two molotov cocktails Vahtang Devitlidze of 2 years and 1 day), 4 years of conditional in the school after the police raid had ul. Libbedova 42, UO 68/2, freedom, with fines equivalent to 4 to 5 started. The molotov cocktails, which otryad 14, brigada 142, months in prison (In Spain it is possible to a police officer had confessed to g. Hagyshensk, Krasnodarskiy Kray pay fines by spending time in prison). So they planting in the school on orders from 352680 Russia are both free, but if they are arrested again in Pietro Troiani, the deputy police chief 4 years, they will spend 2 years in prison, in Genoa, were used to charge the plus the additional charge(s). occupants with possession of Czech Republic : Anti-fascist militant, explosives and to justify the raid. On Augustin Kraus sentenced to 14 months 17 January 2007, it surfaced during a prison - Czech Republic isn’t an exception Catalunya : Two years in prison for hearing in the trial of 29 police and Neo-Nazism is a real problem for many solidarity actions at the Metro - Mireia R.P, officers facing charges in relation to people. There is a city in Northern Czech a young woman caught sealing the entrances the raid including violence and the called Most, where 25% people are unem- of the Metro on 18 August 2005, in a fabrication of evidence, that the ployed and the Neo-Nazi movement is very organised action sealing most of Barcelona's molotov cocktails have disappeared. big.The older members of this movement are tube system, has been sentenced to 2 years While prosecutors and lawyers acting connected to the mafia who take a part in in prison and 1600 euro fine. This action was on behalf of the victims of the raid extortion of local clubs, illegal selling of done in solidarity with the 3 young people claim that this is not overly significant weapons and selling drugs. Media attention from Gracia nieghboorhood who had been because all the necessary tests on was brought to Most with a case of a group of tortured by the police after a molotov attack the bottles have been run and there is these people went to one of the local night on the Gracia police headquarters. The extensive documented evidence of clubs and after fighting with the guards by the disruption of the Metro's entrances caused them, including photographs "taken entrance, two guards were shot to death. It 'widespread public disorder', according to from all angles", lawyers defending showed how the local mafia is connected the Judge and the TMB spokesperson. the officers argue that "photographs with the police because after a while every- can never substitute the material thing went in same way as before and none of evidence of a crime, which must be them was arrested. Last year in October Filip UK : Private agency put protest groups physically recognised". Popelka was killed, he was an older member under surveillance - A corporate newspaper of the Neo-Nazis who was for long time part investigation has revealed that a number of of this mafia. His body was found in front of private companies, including the defence Russia : Anarchist serving 2.5 years his house with many gun shots. All these giant BAE Systems and the security firm in prison for wounding Nazis - In people are well know in Neo-Nazi movement Group 4, were supplied with personal details May 2004, Vahtang Devitlidze, and they use young members for racist on protestors by a private agency called anarchist and member of Federation attacks on the Gypsy community and many ‘Threat Response International’, which is run of Revolutionary Anarchists, was other people. Children between age 15-23 by Evelyn Le Chene. The private investigation hanging in centre of Krasnodar with are very active and big groups of them can be company is said to have a database of two friends. They ran into a group of seen when they are attacking people. When 148,000 activists, peace protestors, environ- local Nazis, and soon a fight broke anti fascist action set up in this city it created mentalists and trade unionists. The investiga- out. There was no choice - in order to a big street fights between both sides. AFA tion reported that BAE paid the company defend himself, Vahtang had to pull a was very effective and some of the main Neo- £120,000 a year for information. One of the knife. As a result, he wounded one of Nazi members ended up for a long time in groups placed under surveillance was the the attackers to leg, while he was also hospital, windows of their cars were broken Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) hospitalized with less serious wounds and younger Neo-Nazis got afraid and which opposed, for example, the sale of himself. Already when the fight was stopped with attacks. Unfortunately Augustin Hawks jets to Indonesia. "Agents" from the over, police showed up and arrested Kraus, member of AFA was last year in company are said to have joined the protest people. Eventually in court Vahtang January jailed for 4 months after one of these groups and : "dowloaded computer files, was given a probational sentence of attacks. After this time was released and till rifled through personal diaries, conducted 2.5 years, for "Causing grievous the end of September of last year was waiting surveillance and passed on bank account bodily harm" (second part of statute for the court. Then he was sentenced for 14 details". Group 4, the security firm, also used 111 of Russian criminal codex). He months of prison for "bodily harm". He was the services of the firm particularly when it did not feel like submitting to proba- supposed to wait for the court order but he was engaged to protect road-building tional regime, and escaped to didn’t pick up his mail for a long time until he programmes from protests (like the Newbury Belarus. But once when visiting his was checked by police and they have a by-pass). A Group 4 spokesperson said "We family in Krasnodar, he got arrested warrant to arrest him. It happened on 14 were getting information about where the and was sent to a low-security prison January and from this time Augustin Kraus is protestors would be and what times in for the remainder of his sentence. He again in the jail. Your support is very important advance. We would have paid for that escaped from prison, but was caught while there is not many people in Czech information". again and heavily beaten up. In Republic who actually support prisoners and summer of 2006 court sent Vahtang all these people who fight against oppression to a normal prison for remainder of his need our help. He speaks Czech, and can Italy : G8-Genoa policemen's trial sentence. Anarchists in Krasnodar are easily understand Sloval and Polish. You can suspended as planted molotov cocktails also write him short postcards in English: disappear - One of the most significant 37 Suzanne Taylor TM7154 Augustin Kraus large amount of letters and petitions arriving in his case and said it works HMP Cookham Wood Vazebni Veznice to Tomek's disadvantage (very Rochester PP-1 questionably- more likely it's the way Kent Litomerice to undermine Tomek's support). His ME1 3LU 412 01 lawyers are filing an appeal and ABC England Czech Republic groups have had discussion about (Sentenced to 2½ years) what to do next. In the meantime Tomek needs letters of support: USA : Court overturns Jeff 'Free' Luers Uk : Widespread bugging exposed in sentence in SUV arson - The Oregon Tomasz Wilkoszewski offical report - UK law enforcement and Court of Appeals on Wednesday overturned ZK security agencies filed 439,000 requests for the 22 - year sentence given to environmen- Orzechowa 5 details of phone calls and Internet activity in tal anarchist Jeffrey Michael Luers for 98-200 Sieradz the 15 months leading up to 31 March 2006, burning three SUVs at the former Romania Poland the latest report from the Communications truck lot and for trying to set fire to the Tyree Commissioner has revealed. Of those Oil Co. in Eugene. The court upheld all 10 requests 2,243 were for warrants permitting of Luers' felony convictions from his 2001 Greece : Anarchists rounded up and the interception of communications. Such trial, but ruled that he was improperly detained after molotov attack - On warrants require the approval of a sentenced to back-to-back prison terms in February 12th around 60 people were Government minister and under the terms of each of the crimes. Luers, 28, is an eco- detained in Athens after a petrol- the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act anarchist prisoner whose original 22-year, bomb attack on a bank. Police (RIPA) grant powers that could result in the eight-month sentence was disproportion- responded by raiding cafes bugging of an entire premises. The ately harsh, considering that no one was frequented by suspected Anarchists in remainder, which do not require ministerial injured in either crime and damage to the the city centre, detaining around 60 approval, do not reveal the content of calls or SUVs was estimated at less than $50,000. people. Nobody was arrested or email messages, but will disclose the number Luers, who already has served six years, formally accused of involvement in the dialled, the location from where a mobile call faces a possible total sentence of between fire-bombing, which was the latest of a is made, or the originating and destination IP 11 years, four months and 13 years, two string of similar attacks. A number of address of an email. months. Luers' co-defendant, Craig Andrew Anarchist groups have claimed Marshall, 33, plead guilty to conspiracy to responsibility for the attacks, in which commit arson and possession of a destruc- petrol bombs and homemade gas- tive device in the case. He served four years canister bombs were used against in prison. Luers and Marshall were arrested banks and government buildings and early on June 17, 2000, minutes after the vehicles in Athens and Thessaloniki. Romania fire was reported. Eugene police, working undercover, had followed the two from a storage unit where Luers lived and UK : Activists jailed for animal rights saw the men park near the Romania lot on campaign - On March 6 three British Franklin Boulevard. A search warrant at the animal rights activists were jailed for storage unit found incense sticks, wooden their part in a non-violent campaign matches, thread and sponges that matched against Huntindon Life Sciences. two fire bombs that failed to ignite in late According to the BBC news, the three May 2000 at the Tyree Oil depot in the Spain : Anti-Civilization gathering 2007 - were accused of being key figures in a Whiteaker neighborhood. A key piece of After the success of the last gathering in campaign against companies with evidence against Luers was a bolt cutter Tavertet, L’lavors d’Anarquia are calling for links to HLS. They were accused of found in his storage unit that made cuts another this year. It will take place the 8, 9, 10 entering the offices of companies with identical to those found on a chain link and 11 of September. The place is not links to HLS and demanding that fence at the oil company, according to trial decided yet. There are different options, all of those companies cut their links. They them in nice spaces, with water and beautiful testimony. One of the Tyree fire bombs was were also accused of organising loud surroundings. There will be place to camp placed under the fuel tank of a fume-filled demonstrations against the and for groups to meet and carry out tanker truck. Investigators contended the companies. Plus they were accused of discussions. There will be vegan food, and device could have produced widespread taking photos of the people who there will also be space for preparing your damage had it ignited. Luers contended the worked for the companies. evidence of his involvement at Tyree was own food. This year the group are thinking about different issues we could discuss: the circumstantial. No re-sentencing date has Mark Taylor TT6636 point of view of non-primitivist anarchy and been set yet. HMP Belmarsh anti-civilization, what will we do about an London authoritarian future after the post-industrial SE28 0UB collapse? As always, the gathering is open Poland : Anti-fascist Tomasz England and we are hoping for any ideas you have for wilkoszewski denied parole - Tomasz (Sentenced to four years) wilkoszewski is an anti-fascist prisoner, the debates and the practical workshops. So, you can contact us: [email protected] serving 15 years for killing a nazi skinhead Teresa Portwine TM7153 during street fight. Tomek just went before HMP Cookham Wood another parole board hearing. His parole Rochester Switzerland : Long-term eco-anarchist was denied another time. Judge asked him if Kent prisoner has sentence reduced - Marco he is going to maintain contact with his ME1 3LU Camenisch has had his sentence of 17 years supporters when he goes outside. Tomek England for the killing of a border guard reduced to 8 said that "yes" although now he doesn't (Sentenced to 15 months) think anymore that violence is a solution to years. This is because adding all the previous anything. Judge was also visibly annoyed at years in prison for the nuclear sabotage and those served in Italy, he had already served too many years. 38 Distro

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